Detecting and Mitigating Flow Instabilities in Hydrocarbon Production Wells

A method of detecting and mitigating flow instabilities in one or more hydrocarbon production wells, the method comprising:

• retrieving real-time production data pertaining to each of the one or more hydrocarbon production wells;
• using the real-time production data, identifying patterns of flow instability within the real-time production data;
• generating a numerical model of transient and thermal multiphase flow in each of the one or more hydrocarbon production wells;
• retrieving well test data from a database;
• calibrating the numerical model using the well test data;
• using the calibrated numerical model, performing a parametric study to determine how input parameters affect at least one of stability and performance of the one or more hydrocarbon production wells;
• querying results of the parametric study to determine a type of flow instability and to determine operating conditions to improve performance of the one or more hydrocarbon production wells;
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• providing, to a user, an advisory to change operating conditions of one or more of the hydrocarbon production wells to improve stability and/or performance of one or more of the hydrocarbon production wells.