METHOD OF OIL WELL OPERATION Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC E21B43/00 E21B34/02 

FIELD: oil and gas industry.

SUBSTANCE: method includes cyclic forced gas pumping from the annulus and pressure decreasing in it. Periodically the well flow header is partially closed. Pressure upstream the shutdown element of the header is increased to ensure the produced fluid supply to the expansion chamber of the tank with resilient element and to accumulate mechanical energy in the expansion chamber. Then full opening of the header shutdown element is performed. Pressure upstream the shutdown element is decreased, and fluid is displaced from the expansion chamber to the header due to the accumulated mechanical energy. Each cyclic volume increasing of part of the tank above the expansion chamber ensures annulus gas suction in it, and this volume decreasing ensures gas displacement to the header.

EFFECT: possibility of gas pumping from the annulus in tubing string of the well for different methods of mechanised oil production.

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