(GP/GT) for Additional Water Supply in the Lower Rio Grande

only reason for selecting that limit is that has been historically the maximum production
rates that similar wells in the Gulf Coast have been produced. The limiting bottomhole
pressure was selected to yield surface pressures in excess of 500 psi. The composition
of the produced gas will vary with the pressure of the wellhead separation equipment.
The lower the pressure, the higher the CO 2
content of the gas. Experience has shown a
pressure of 500 psi will produce pipeline quality gas.
It must be pointed out that although there have been test wells in the Gulf Coast
area that have produced these volumes over sustained periods, there are no prototype
pattern developments. While this has not been demonstrated physically, the technology
that controls the fluid flow is well understood and the projection of the patterns from
the test wells is much more reliable than the test well projections themselves.
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