Improved designs reduce sucker-rod pumping costs
- Univ. of Miskolc (Hungary)
Pumping mode selection, optimum counterbalance determination, and rod string design are factors that can reduce operational costs and improve sucker-rod pumping operations. To maximize profits from sucker-rod pumped wells, designs must aim at technically and economically optimum conditions. Assessment of surface and downhole energy losses are basic considerations for improving system efficiency. It is important to properly select the pumping mode, such as the combination of plunger size, pumping speed, stroke length, and rod taper design. The best pumping mode maximizes lifting efficiency and, at the same time, reduces prime-mover power requirements and electrical costs. Surface equipment operational efficiency can be improved with optimum counterbalancing of the pumping unit, and top achieve an ideal sucker-rod pumping system, a tapered rod string must have a proper mechanical design. The paper discusses rod pumping, downhole energy losses, surface losses, optimum efficiency, mode selection, counterbalancing, minimizing the cyclic load factor, and rod string design.
- OSTI ID:
- 379922
- Journal Information:
- Oil and Gas Journal, Vol. 94, Issue 41; Other Information: PBD: 7 Oct 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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