Course Objectives:

 By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain the fundamentals of artificial lift methods
•  identify where sucker rod pumping fits among alternative techniques.
• Evaluate lease, well, reservoir, and equipment parameters to select the most suitable artificial lift method for a given well.
• Identify the main components of a sucker rod pumping installation, including the pumping unit, wellhead, polished rod, sucker rod string, and downhole pump.
• Classify API sucker rod pumps and recognize their parts, fittings, and applications.
• Design a sucker rod pump installation, including pump bore sizing, material selection, and rod string design.
• Interpret dynamometer cards and calculate key performance parameters: pumping speed, production rate, polished rod loads, rod stress, torque, and horsepower.
• Install, operate, and troubleshoot sucker rod pumps, applying corrosion inhibition practices and relevant safety procedures.

Course Outlines:​

• Origin of petroleum
• Basic exploration
• Basic drilling and completion
• Basic production engineering
• The sucker rod pump
• The hydraulic pump
• The submersible pump
• Gas lift
• Free piston lift
• Lease considerations
• Well and reservoir analysis
• Equipment parameters
• Conclusion and method selection
• Background and history
• Principles of sucker rod pumping
• The pumping unit
• The wellhead
• The polished rod
• The sucker rod
• The sucker rod pump
• API pumps and API pump designations
• Tubing pumps
• Traveling barrel, bottom hold-down insert pumps
• Stationary barrel, bottom hold-down insert pumps
• Stationary barrel, top hold-down insert pumps
• Stationary barrel, top and bottom hold-down insert pumps
• Special pumps
• Pump parts and fittings:
  • Barrel tubes
  • Cages
  • Plungers
  • The Axelson "Ring Valve"
  • Balls and seats
  • Other fittings
• Well analysis and subsurface pump selection
  • Analysis of the well
  • Selecting the subsurface oil well pump
  • Determining the pump bore size
  • Choosing the pump type
  • Selection of materials
• Beam pumping performance analysis
  • The dynamometer card
  • Determining favorable pumping speeds
  • Establishing production rates
  • Peak polished rod loads
  • Maximum rod stress
  • Minimum polished rod load
  • Polished rod load range
  • Peak torque
  • Polished rod horsepower
• Rod string and installation design
  • Pump and rod installation design
  • Plunger slippage and fits
  • Designing the sucker rod string
  • Specific information required
  • Sucker rod string design charts
  • The rod string load ratio
  • Sucker rod couplings and coupling displacement
• Operation, corrosion control, and troubleshooting
  • The inhibitor program
  • Installation, operating, and troubleshooting the pump

Who Can Benefit?

• Mechanical Technicians
• Engineers
• Maintenance Technicians
• Engineering Apprentices and Trainees, Graduate Engineers

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