RE: Sweet Brent Crude +US$94.00 / Barrell15 Sep 2023 08:39
How much condensate is being currently produced from Saltfleetby!!!!
Singhie,
You may think the condensate from SLBY is something to boast about, but the reality is that the condensate is produced purely as a result of declining reservoir pressure at to below dew point, meaning the more they produce the closer to end of commercial production it gets.
You the ask WHY ?? no it has NOTHING to do with Brexit, what happens is the more you breach the dew point pressure, the more condensate is generated near and in the wellbore, bit like a bottle of soda/coke, you don't shake it before opening it and you just get a light fizz and no froth, or you shake it first and then open it and the agitated gas in the liquid increases, you crack it open and you got a fountain of liquids and gas escaping.
The problem with a gas field is that the well flows extremely easy when it is JUST gas, the weight/density of a few 1000 ft of gas (column to surface) that the reservoir pressure is trying to push out to surface is minimal.
When you start to hit the dew point, you are introducing liquids (condensate & a little water) into that column from reservoir to surface, the more below dew point you go, the more liquids % increases in that column, and that significantly increases the column density, eventually to a point where the liquids in the column weight more than the pressure left in the reservoir trying to push it to surface, at this point, with the well open fully at surface, you will have zero flow & zero pressure.
So if you want decent gas production numbers every day for you daily production post, then I would not be hoping for condensates, better if they were producing none.