The PERTT Lab
The LSU Petroleum Engineering Research & Technology Transfer Laboratory (PERTT Lab) provides a versatile research environment for performing multiphase flow experiments on field scale tubulars at high pressures. Since its development in the early 1980s, this facility represents a two million dollar investment by industrial and governmental interests. A full time laboratory support staff maintains their offices at this site. In addition, the PERTT Lab employs student workers for routine maintenance work and research support. This facility is an industrial-scale facility, having full-scale equipment and instrumentation for conducting research related to borehole technology. PERTT originally assembled most of this equipment for blowout prevention research and training activities.
Well Facility Features
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600-bbl. capacity drilling fluid mixing and circulating system
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High-pressure remotely controlled choke manifold system, which includes five chokes of various manufacturers, and a process control system
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2,787-ft. model well for floating drilling operations
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5,884-ft. model well for bottom supported drilling operations
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High-pressure underground gas formation simulator
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Full-scale model well diverter system
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10,000-ft. drill pipe flow loop
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100-ft. derrick and 55-ft. inclined wellbore analog
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Two classrooms and a computer simulator classroom
