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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2012
Applicant:
Abb Inc., Cary, NC (US);
Inventor:
John William Green, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Assignee:
ABB Inc., Cary, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 43/122 (2013.01);
Abstract
When a fossil fuel well is producing fossil fuel, lift gas injected into the well to bring the naturally occurring fluids in the well to the surface along with the fossil fuel and the plunger if the well has a plunger. An instrument is programmed to use the predetermined criteria to dynamically control the rate of injection of the lift gas into the well.