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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2023
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Oluwatosin Ogundare, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Bustona Yusubakhmedova, Midland, TX (US);
Jeremy C. Nicholson, Houston, TX (US);
Eric Lynn Jantz, Duncan, OK (US);
Adeyemi Taylor, Katy, TX (US);
Haivany Marlene Youmou, Houston, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for performing a gas lift operation using gas to increase production of production fluid through a production tubing in a wellbore. Included is an optical bubble sensor usable to detect bubbles per unit volume of the production fluid in the production tubing. Also included is a pump operable to pump gas into an annulus in the wellbore outside the production tubing, a valve operable to control whether gas from the pump enters the annulus, and a controller comprising a processor. The controller is operable to automatically convert the detected bubbles per unit volume into a gas/liquid saturation index (GLSI) using a transformation function; automatically execute, at designated intervals, a decision function based on the GLSI to either pump or not pump gas into the wellbore; and automatically control the pump and the valve to pump gas into the annulus when indicated by the decision function.