Dr. Paulo Waltrich featured in two articles

 

Dr. Paulo Waltrich, Dr. Stuart Scott, and Graduate Student Renato Coutinho have been featured in articles in the Journal of Petroleum Technology (JPT – July issue "Transient Coupled Wellbore/Reservoir Model Using a Dynamic IPR Function") and American Oil and Gas Reporter (AOGR - June issue "Method Improves Gas Lift Economincs). These articles highlight the development of a new gas-lift technique called Liquid-Assisted Gas-Lift, and the development of the so-called Dynamic IPR. The Liquid-Assisted Gas-Lift technology has the potential to change the way gas-lifted wells are unloaded. The development of the Dynamic IPR, which is carried out in collaboration with graduate students from Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin, not only captures the relevant reservoir dynamics from the well perspective, but also is computationally more efficient than discretized models using hundreds of gridblocks to simulate the near-wellbore region.