Artificial Lift Technology



Day 1



• Fluid Flow Fundamentals



• Black Oil PVT



• Inflow Performance Relationships



• Nodal Analysis Technology




Day 2



• Overview of Artificial Lift



• Comparison of Artificial Lift Systems



• Artificial Lift Selection



• Beam (Rod) Pump Systems



• Surface and Subsurface Equipment



• Power Requirements




Day 3



• Beam (Rod) Pump Systems (Cont)



• Dynamometers and Troubleshooting



• Optimization



• Exercise for Designing a SRP System



• Progressive Cavity Pumps System



• Applications



• Surface and Subsurface Equipment



• Geometry of Downhole Pump



• Fit (Interference)- Viscosity- Slip



• Elastomers



• Power Requirement



• Exercise for Designing a PCP System




Day 4



• Electric Submersible Pumps (ESP)



• Applications- Design and Selection of ESP



• Surface Equipment



• Subsurface Equipment



• Installation and Operations



• Exercise




Day 5



• Gas Lift Systems



• Principles of Gas Lift



• Gas Lif Valves



• Design and Operations



• Intermittent vs. Continuous Systems



• Exercise