A Review of Dynamic Fluid Level Detection for Oil Well

Abstract:

It is of great significance for analyzing well supply capacity, determining the reservoir pressure and thus enhancing oil production rate to detect dynamic fluid level depth for oil well. How to detect the fluid level depth accurately is the difficulty of the current study, based on the issue that hitherto detection of dynamic fluid level depth is not precise enough. Plenty of technical personnels have tried to solve this problem by various kinds of methods. In this study, we illustrate several approaches to determining the fluid level in a dynamic environment. This paper presents a review of dynamic fluid level detection for oil well. Moreover, this review will provide an overview of the potentially detection method of dynamic fluid level for oil well.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 456)
• Pages: 582-586
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.456.582
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Wei Jia*, Wei Zhou, Tai Fu Li
• Keywords: Detection, Dynamic Fluid Level, Oil Well, Review

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