Facility Features

Technical Facilities

  • 15,000 gallon (357-bbl.) capacity water circulating system
  • High-pressure remotely controlled choke manifold system, which includes five chokes of various manufacturers, and a process control system
  • Two triplex pumps capable of 250 GPM and 500 GPM up to 5000 psi
  • Gas flows up to 10,000SCFM at 5000 psi
  • Safekick MPD choke system
  • 2,800-ft. model well with two P/T gauge mandrels and a side pocket gas lift mandrel for production or drilling circulation 
  • 5,200-ft. model well with four downhole P/T gauge mandrels, two side-pocket gas lift mandrels, and single/multimode fiber optics for performing DAS/DTS measurements.
    • Fiber Optics:
      • DAS (PureCore SMF fiber (9/125/155), E2000/APC terminated connection.
      • DTS (0.5m measurement, 1E-3 F accuracy, 30 sec interval, WITSML output file)
  • Nitrogen generator with 180,000scf of gas storage onsite.
  • VPC flow loop for testing and API validation of both 1” and 1.5” gas lift valves. 
  • 40-ft. tower with inclinable beam for testing flow regimes at different inclinations and orientations in tubulars.
  • 100-ft. derrick with 100-ft 12" vertical pipe
  • Multiphase flow loop capable of 1.5MMSCFD of gas and 200 GPM water
  • PASON Rig Display and Driller's Station, Full WITS recording of instruments 
  • Data:
    • 50TB RAID6 onsite storage
    • 10Gbe network connectivity at control room and blue shed (RJ45, SFP+)
    • Docker container platform for service hosting
    • Automated offsite synchronization (RSYNC, RTR, AWS, Azure, OneDrive)
    • WITSML stram from Pason for onsite 3rd party monitoring (1 sec, 10 sec)
  • Two classrooms and a computer simulator classroom

drawing of pertt lab

aerial view

Keller Classroom Building

  • Classroom has 2 projectors, 2 flat screens, 2 Da-Lite projector screens, digital media presentation system and seats 50
  • Computer lab has 10 computer stations, Eno projector, 4 flat screens, and a digital presenter