Remember how you felt when...

You found your well was gas lifting through a leaking valve 3 mandrels too high?

You saw that only a dump valve was restricting your production, not the size of the separator?

The zone you thought was watered out was not producing at all?

Your Operations Tech told you how to easily eliminate the water overboard constraint?

Those three wells that were shut down because of high GOR actually had normal GOR?

You were told the compressor scrubber inlet had been partially blocked with gloves and welding rods?

You found twelve well chokes were 'fully opened' but still causing significant backpressure?

You realized you could put your high pressure well into your low pressure manifold?

You found out that three wells that were choked back for sand production were not producing sand at all?

That strange pressure drop turned out to be from an old full-bore valve with a restricted port?

You found a plugged gravel pack was causing a huge drawdown in one of your bettter wells?

You realized that adding a second pipeline would be better and cheaper than drilling a new well?

You found an opportunity to increase production in your field like these examples?

I know you felt GREAT!

I know how you felt, because that's how I felt everytime I found opportunities just like this.  It's because you had just found another valuable, low-cost optimization opportunity that proved again that you are a heroically awesome engineer!*

*If you have not had that special feeling of production system optimization success, that makes me sad.  Let me help you!