A New Approach for Accurate Prediction of Liquid Loading of Directional Gas Wells in Transition Flow or Turbulent Flow

Figure 1

Force balance of droplet in directional well, where is the deviation angle, degrees, with β = 90° which represents the horizontal well; is the drag force of airstream on droplet, N; is the droplet gravity, N; is the wall friction to the droplet, N; is the bracing force, N; is the buoyancy force, N.