Course Number : tpr1
Artificial lift Systems
Objectives:

This coarse blends lecture, hands-on exercises, and seminar teaching styles to enhance your learning experience. Participants work with software packages that allow them to analyze artificial lift packages that allow them to analyze artificial lift designs quickly and accurately. Such programs should improve performance and result inhigher production rates and/or reduced operating costs. Participants learn how to design and troubleshoot rod pumping, continuous gas lift, and electric submersible pump systems. Other methods such as progressing cavity, plunger lift, jet pump, hydraulic pump, and intermitted gas lift will also be addressed.

Course outlines:

Overview of artificial lift technology
 
Criteria for selection of artificial lift system
 
Reservoir performance:inflow and outflow
 
Artificial lift screening
 
Rod-pump design:pumping unit, rods pump, prime movers, gas anchor, pump-off controls
 
Gas lift design:madrels, valves, injection gas requirements, temperature, chokes, spacing , equilibrium curve, continuous flow design
 
ESP Design:pump performance curves, pump intake curves, typical problems, installation, troubleshooting
 
Best practices for installation and maintenance for all methods
 
Economic analysis
 
Introduction to Rod-pumping, gas lift, and ESP systems
 
Other artificial lift methods
Who should attend?

Engineers, technicians, field supervisors and others who select, design, evaluate, or operate artificial lift systems.