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Glossary:Gas lift valve
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A pressure operated valve, placed in a gas lift mandrels at designed points in the well. The gas lift supply gas is routed through the valves into the tubing. The top valves close and the lower valves open as the static liquid level drops in the well (the well is unloaded).