New Minimum Flow Rate Calculator

By Adam Swartley | Tue, 1 May 2007

At DRC we are always striving to improve our technology to provide greater benefit to our clients.  In this spirit we have developed a new tool to be used from our website.  This program is used to calculate the rates needed to unload liquid from your well.

We have also added a set of easy to use charts that can be printed from the site. One of the most common problems that plague gas producers is liquid loading; therefore it is critical to first understand if your well’s production potential has been curtailed due to liquid loading issues.

For DRC, we must first determine if the well is unloading any produced liquids continuously and without slugging at the wellhead. The well cannot have a standing liquid column and it must not be in slug flow. To better assist our customers with selecting wells that are candidates for surface testing, we have implemented a Fluid Unloading calculator which can determine the minimum rate necessary to unload produced fluids. It is a rigorous model based on Turner’s Equation: