Title :
Modelling and model predictive control of oil wells with Electric Submersible Pumps
Author :
Pavlov, Alexey ; Krishnamoorthy, Dinesh ; Fjalestad, Kjetil ; Aske, Elvira ; Fredriksen, Morten
Author_Institution :
R&D Center, Statoil ASA, Porsgrunn, Norway
Abstract :
In this paper we describe control challenges related to operation of oil wells equipped with Electric Submersible Pumps (ESP) and formalize them in a control problem setting in the language of control system engineers. Then we present a simple dynamic model of an oil well equipped with ESP. This model can be used for controller development. To solve this problem, we propose a Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategy and present experimental results of an MPC controller successfully tested in a large scale test facility with a full scale ESP, live crude oil in an emulated oil well.
Keywords :
crude oil; oil technology; predictive control; pumps; MPC controller; control problem; controller development; dynamic model; electric submersible pumps; emulated oil well; full-scale ESP; large-scale test facility; live crude oil; oil well model predictive control; oil well modelling; Conferences; Control systems;
Conference_Titel :
Control Applications (CCA), 2014 IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Juan Les Antibes
DOI :
10.1109/CCA.2014.6981403
