Test evaluates high-volume ESP application offshore Mexico
- Pemex, Villahermosa (Mexico)
- Cealc, Bartlesville, OK (United States)
An electric submersible pump (ESP) test, although shorter than hoped for, indicated that artificial lift with ESPs had potential for replacing gas-lift operations, offshore Mexico. Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) recently preformed this test of a high-volume (10,000 b/d) ESP in the Akal reservoir of the Cantarell field, northeast Marina Region in the Gulf of Mexico. In the Marine Region, gas lift is the main artificial lift method; however, to maintain production on gas lift, sweetened gas requirements for the Akal reservoir would have to increase by about 30 MMscfd. The ESP design was complex because the pump would have to handle 20--40% of free gas at its intake. Installed in September 1996, the ESP had to be pulled from the well in November 1997 because of an electrical short. Actual operating time was about 7 months. The paper describes test objectives, pump environment, pump design, downhole equipment, surface equipment, operating history, production history, and an analysis.
- OSTI ID:
- 580811
- Journal Information:
- Oil and Gas Journal, Vol. 96, Issue 7; Other Information: PBD: 16 Feb 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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