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    History and Reflecions Sucker Rod Pumping

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    Sucker-rod pumping has a history spanning over 3000 years. It originated with the use of animal power in ancient China and Egypt. The modern sucker-rod pumping system developed during the Industrial Age with the introduction of steam power. A key development was Colonel Edwin Drake's 1859 discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, which started the US oil industry. Over the following decades, improvements such as the use of steel rods and electric motors advanced sucker-rod pumping technology. In the 1950s-60s, the introduction of dynamometers, load cells, and computer models helped optimize sucker-rod system design and well surveillance. Sucker-rod pumping continues to be an important production method after over 50 years

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    Sucker-rod pumping has a history spanning over 3000 years. It originated with the use of animal power in ancient China and Egypt. The modern sucker-rod pumping system developed during the Industrial Age with the introduction of steam power. A key development was Colonel Edwin Drake's 1859 discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, which started the US oil industry. Over the following decades, improvements such as the use of steel rods and electric motors advanced sucker-rod pumping technology. In the 1950s-60s, the introduction of dynamometers, load cells, and computer models helped optimize sucker-rod system design and well surveillance. Sucker-rod pumping continues to be an important production method after over 50 years

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    Sucker-rod pumping has a history spanning over 3000 years. It originated with the use of animal power in ancient China and Egypt. The modern sucker-rod pumping system developed during the Industrial Age with the introduction of steam power. A key development was Colonel Edwin Drake's 1859 discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, which started the US oil industry. Over the following decades, improvements such as the use of steel rods and electric motors advanced sucker-rod pumping technology. In the 1950s-60s, the introduction of dynamometers, load cells, and computer models helped optimize sucker-rod system design and well surveillance. Sucker-rod pumping continues to be an important production method after over 50 years

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    History and Reflecions Sucker Rod Pumping

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    Sucker-rod pumping has a history spanning over 3000 years. It originated with the use of animal power in ancient China and Egypt. The modern sucker-rod pumping system developed during the Industrial Age with the introduction of steam power. A key development was Colonel Edwin Drake's 1859 discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, which started the US oil industry. Over the following decades, improvements such as the use of steel rods and electric motors advanced sucker-rod pumping technology. In the 1950s-60s, the introduction of dynamometers, load cells, and computer models helped optimize sucker-rod system design and well surveillance. Sucker-rod pumping continues to be an important production method after over 50 years

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    History and Reflections:

    Sucker-Rod Pumping

    No Disclaimers
    713-666-1071 3000 years in 35+ minutes
    [email protected]
    Introduction: Sucker-Rod-Lift/Pumping-System
    Chain:* links
    Prime Mover (eng. or m)
    (Controllers)
    Sheaves & V-Belts
    Units (various)
    Polished Rod & clamp
    Stuffing Box
    Tree (Wellhead)
    Rods
    Tubing & Anchor
    Pump
    Gas Anchor (separator)
    Miscellaneous

    * Gibson & Swain 2


    ANCHIENT History
    China

    Egypt Rome

    (animal power)
    Russia
    Azerbaijan, Baku
    Industrial Age

    Sucker-Rod
    Pumping:
    Steam
    Powered

    1712:
    Thomas
    Newcomen

    1763:
    James Watt
    Mines
    Colonel Edwin Drake Discovery: 1859

    Start of the US Oil Industry


    RODS:1860s-Wooden; 1890s- Iron; 1910s+ Steel

    1913: Oil Well Supply Co: Simplex


    Pumping Jack w/ central power.
    Then slow speed gas engine 1920+

    1925:
    Trout of Lufkin patents
    the counterbalanced
    oilfield pumping
    jack
    World War I Period

    API Established in 1919


    First STANDARDS in 1924
    Recommended Practices
    (directed at the producers)
    Specifications
    (directed at the manufacturers)

    Improved in 1970s
    The Lean Years: 1929-1939 Downhole
    Dynagraph
    Card: 1936*
    Improved
    *Gilbert
    Design
    Methods: Top
    Mills, Marsh,
    Coberly

    All
    empirical
    TV SV

    Bottom
    of Stroke
    After W E Gilbert 1936: Later (1960s) by Sam Gibbs (12 min)
    Sucker-Rod-Lift/Pumping-System
    1950s: My early years
    BC:
    Before Computers

    Empirical Equations
    Design Selection
    Purchase
    Install

    AGE OF
    ELECTRIC MOTORS
    10
    Typical Gas Anchor Performance:
    100 (1952 to 1962)
    STB All Free Gas Vented RB
    Pump
    Eff An Effective Gas Anchor If Not Overloaded
    % Little
    Free No
    gas Free
    50
    Gas
    Poorboy

    All Free Gas Pumped

    0
    0 Pump Intake Pressure (psig) Pb Pr
    2 4
    3

    5 6
    1
    1950s: Typical Surface Dynamometer Card
    CHECK
    Area = PRHP Permission
    < PM Appointment
    Location
    Installation
    o Stabilize
    Stylus
    Card
    TV Load
    TV
    SV
    SV Load CB
    Remove
    Return
    Analysis
    Zero Load
    Based on work by SRPRI: they
    Retained Midwest Research
    Institute of KC

    Non-
    Non-
    Dimensional
    Dimensional
    Rod Load :
    Stroke
    Length
    6 curve graphs

    0.1 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.6

    ND SPEED FACTOR . SPM


    Natural Frequency
    Early 1960s:
    Use of the Gibbs wave equation
    In Sucker-rod Design

    7.1
    Technology Advances in Sucker-Rod Pumping Analysis:
    1940 & 1960 : (Johnson Fagg) DYNAMOMETER
    1961:LOAD CELL &
    DISPLACEMENT RECORDER

    Lockheed LC
    Sanbourn Recorder
    strip chart:
    Load vs Time
    YOYO Displacement
    Recorder:
    Distance vs Time

    1960s Wave Equation: Design (good)& Well (poor)


    1970+ Computer @ well: NABLA: Design (Time-Share)
    1980+ Data transfer or Computer @ well.
    Denver Unit systemWasson Field
    OK
    Surveillance today
    50+ years

    Well
    Production
    History

    Instructions
    Good luck.
    Keep up the
    good work.
    65 YEARS

    Prepare for the


    Next oil boom
    When oil is
    $100/bbl.?
    In 2020 !

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