Well Pumping: Sucker-Rod Pump Performance

This course is about the well factors that affect the pump's efficiency and how to control them: how gas anchors work, and when to use them; how to control sand and other solids in the fluid, when to increase or decrease submergence, and when to use backpressure control, how to control heading, to detect and control pounding, and to break a gas lock.

Target Audience

Operations personnel who require a fundamental understanding of knowledge to operate and maintain facilities. Also suitable for maintenance and technician personnel whether new to their roles or seasoned experts looking to enhance their skills.

You Will Learn

Participants will learn how to:

• Explain how to determine rod stretch by using charts.
• Determine tubing stretch by reading and interpreting charts.
• Determine overtravel by reading and interpreting charts.
• Use rod stretch, tubing stretch, and overtravel interpreted from charts to find plunger stroke.
• Define volumetric efficiency.
• Use pump capacity charts to determine if a well needs repair or inspection.
• Identify where the operating level is located and what factors affect it.
• Define GOR and predict its pattern during production.
• Describe how a gas anchor works to prevent separated gas from entering the pump intake.
• Describe how a packer gas anchor is used in a heading well.
• Describe how a poor boy gas anchor is used in a sandy well.
• Define heading and describe ways to prevent it.
• Describe how chokes and valves are used to control flow.
• Describe the problems caused by paraffin and scale buildup and explain how to prevent them.
• Define pounding and describe how it is caused, and how to prevent it.
• Define gas locking and describe how it is caused, and how to prevent it.

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