Taking the pulse of producing wells - ESP surveillance

Oilfield Review

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 16-25

  Bates, Ron ^a   Cosad, Charlie ^a   Fielder, Lance ^a   Kosmala, Alex ^a   Hudson, Steve ^b   Romero, George ^a   Shanmugam, Valli ^a  

^a Aethon I LP ^*

^b Aethon I LP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFT SYSTEMS; ELECTRICAL SUBMERSIBLE PUMPS (ESP); PUMP FAILURE; RESERVOIR PRESSURE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; COSTS; CRUDE PETROLEUM; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MAINTENANCE; NATURAL GAS; OIL FIELDS; PRODUCTION; SENSORS;

OIL WELL PUMPS;

EID: 4444301789     PISSN: 09231730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. Spears and Associates, Inc.: "Oilfield Market Report 2003," Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA: 6 http://www.spearsresearch.com/OMR/OMRMain.htm (accessed April 21, 2004).
2. For more on the different artificial lift methods: Fleshman R, Harryson and Lekic O: "Artificial Lift for High-Volume Production," Oilfield Review 11, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 48-63.
3. In this article, run life pertains to the mean time between failures of the entire ESP system, as opposed to mean time between failures of a single pump.
4. Spears and Associates, Inc., reference 1.
5. The development history of the ESP dates back to 1911, when 18-year-old Armais Arutunoff started Russian Electrical Dynamo of Arutunoff (the future REDA). In 1916. a centrifugal pump was redesigned to operate with his motor, a major milestone that would lead to the use of motorized pumps downhole. After immigrating to the USA in 1923, he deployed the first oilfield pumping system in 1927 for Phillips Petroleum, now ConocoPhillips. Three years later, REDA Pump Company was established in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA, where it continues to manufacture pumps today. REDA became a division of Camco Incorporated in 1988, which was acquired by Schlumberger in 1998.
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