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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2020
Epic Lift Systems Llc, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Schuyler Kuykendall, Granbury, TX (US);
EPIC LIFT SYSTEMS LLC, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Abstract
Apparatus, systems, and methods for operating a gas-lift plunger, of which the apparatus includes a controller configured to perform operations including receiving a signal from a sensor representing that a gas-lift plunger has reached a position is proximate to a top of a well. The operations include, in response to receiving the signal, causing a compressor to unload, and positioning a valve such that a gas flows from the compressor to a pressure vessel, and not into the well, and from the pressure vessel to the compressor. The operations include determining that the plunger has descended in the well, and in response to determining that the plunger has descended in the well, causing the compressor to load, and positioning the valve such that gas flows from the compressor to the well via the valve, the gas flowing from the pressure vessel into the inlet of the compressor.