Autonomous Inflow Control Valve
Each reservoir is different and each reservoir faces different challenges.
AICV® is tailored as per the reservoir managements needs. Designed to function effectively within the operators’ requirements and to meet their objectives. This means that flow performance of the AICV® will be designed to the operators’ requirements and needs to autonomously manage how the valve will restrict un-wanted water or gas.
AICV®
All wells face challenges with un-wanted water and/or gas ingress be it vertical, slanted, or horizontal.
Horizontal wells have become common place as their design by nature ensures maximum reservoir contact yet non-uniform well drainage creates water and/or gas breakthrough challenges due to heterogeneous reservoirs with permeability variations and fractures along with friction inside the liner/tubing.
AICVs enable oil production as the valves remain ‘open’ for oil saturated sections of the wellbore yet the AICVs autonomously manage to restrict flow from reservoir sections that are producing higher degrees of un-wanted water and gas. There are several designs of AICVs ranging from 0.25 cP ultralight oil up to >3000 cP ultraheavy oil.
We are explaining how our AICV® (Autonomous Inflow Control Valve) technology effectively shuts off un-wanted gas and water zones and increases oil production and recovery.
The AICV® (Autonomous Inflow Control Valve) is dramatically more effective than passive ICDs as the AICVs change their effective inflow area based on the increased amount of gas and water they see due to the viscosity and density. AICVs can reduce 90% more un-wanted gas vs. passive ICD technology. This provides lower-cost wells when utilizing the AICVs as they greatly lower gas handling costs and limitations.
This is the next generation Inflow Control Device (ICD).
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