Optimal and heuristic scheduling for intermittent gas lift operations

The purpose of this paper is to study the scheduling problem in the intermittent gas lift operations, and to present a mixed integer programming (MIP) formulation for solving it. Some heuristic methods are also developed to gain insight into the gas lift scheduling problem of larger problem size. Finally, the performances of the heuristic methods are compared and contrasted based on the computational efficiency and the solution quality.