Optimize your

rod lift systems

with Pro-Rod®
coiled rod
Rod lift solutions
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Three major value points of Pro-Rod®

Reduce maintenance.
Increase production.
Enhance profit.
Pro-Rod® delivers the most convenient and cost-effective coiled rod
product and is the industry’s largest coiled rod manufacturer, with
world-class facilities in Canada, the United States and the Middle East.

Coiled rod is manufactured as a one-piece, continuous rod string that effectively connects the bottom-hole
pump to the prime mover at surface. With only two connections, one at the top and one on bottom of the rod
string, all other connections are eliminated for a uniform rod diameter. Costly well maintenance interventions
due to failures associated with rod couplings, tubing wear and coupling makeup issues are significantly reduced.
Coiled rod’s uniform and flexible nature makes it the most effective and efficient choice for rod strings in all wells
deviated from vertical (horizontal, slant or directional).

Our coiled rod is manufactured using the highest quality domestic steel available and is subject to the industry’s
most rigorous quality assurance program. Pro-Rod®’s proprietary high-quality, fully quenched and tempered
coiled rod is available in the size and grade required to meet your needs.

REDUCE LIFT COSTS

Failure analysis data indicates that the majority of conventional sucker rod string failures
occur within the coupling connections and forged upset areas. A Pro-Rod® “connection-less”
rod string with uniform rod diameter can drastically reduce the associated costs of rod string
maintenance, tubing replacement, and well downtime.

INCREASE PRODUCTION
Removing the couplings from a rod string creates a uniform flow area for fluid in the production
tubing and eliminates pressure loss experienced across couplings, increasing both pump
efficiency and production.

REDUCE SERVICE COSTS

Producers can expect lower well service costs and reduce well intervention frequency
using Pro-Rod®.

Coiled rod’s one-piece configuration also helps to significantly reduce the trip times, rod
handling, and manpower requirements associated with conventional sucker rods, saving
time and money.

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Benefits of coiled rod

Bringing the benefits of coiled rod to

your wells, simply and efficiently
Coiled rod technology has been available since the 1960s Pro-Rod® and ChampionX Artificial Lift have been at the
but remained a relatively underutilized product because forefront of these recent advances. Thanks to state-of-the-
of the significant logistical obstacles it once presented for art installation and servicing equipment, coupled with coiled
well operators. Recent advances in the equipment used to rod manufactured with industry-leading steel strength and
install and maintain coiled rod-equipped wells, along with quality, oil producers can now leverage coiled rod in any
an increased availability of third-party coiled rod installation type of well to ensure optimal production and drastically
services, have removed the cost-prohibitive barriers of entry reduced well maintenance costs.
and revolutionized the use of coiled rod in the industry.

The benefits of coiled rod

INCREASEDPRODUCTION
INCREASED PRODUCTION
By
By removing couplings, centralizers
removing couplings, centralizersand
andguides
guidesfrom
fromthe
therod
rodstring,
string,coiled
coiledrod
rodhelps
helpsboost
boostproduction
productionby:
by:
■ Providingan
Providing anincreased
increasedannular
annularflow
flowarea
area
■ Eliminating pressure drop across couplings/centralizers/guides
Eliminating pressure drop across couplings/centralizers/guides
■ Eliminating rod coupling/centralizer piston effect
Eliminating rod coupling/centralizer piston effect
■ Allowing a larger-diameter rod to be used in slim-hole applications
Allowing a larger-diameter rod to be used in slim-hole applications

Rod in production tubing

Conventional coupled rod Coiled rod Conventional sucker Coiled rod

rod with coupling

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Benefits of coiled rod

Contact load & tubing wear

Couplings on conventional
sucker rod (left) generate
high concentrated contact
loads and bending stresses
especially in deviated
tubing sections. Coiled rod’s
uniform diameter (right)
allows for a more uniform
distribution of loads, which
decreases contact loads
and bending stresses.

The benefits of coiled rod

REDUCE WELL
REDUCE WELL DOWNTIME
DOWNTIMEAND
ANDMAINTENANCE
MAINTENANCE
Eliminating
■ Eliminating couplings
couplings prevents
prevents an estimated
an estimated 75%75% of rod
of rod string
string failures
failures
Coiled
■ Coiled rod distributes side loads more effectively than conventional
rod distributes side loads more effectively than conventional sucker sucker rod throughout
rod throughout the entire
the entire rod string,
rod string,
which which
eliminates theeliminates the wear
concentrated concentrated
caused bywear caused
having by having
couplings everycouplings every
25 feet and 25 feet and
significantly reduces
significantly
tubing wear reduces tubing wear

Sucker rod in tubing Sucker rod coupling

& tubing wear
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Pro-Rod® applications

Optimizing production across a

range of rod-driven pump systems
Pro-Rod® has earned its reputation as an industry-leading rod lift solution
for a variety of well configurations and artificial lift applications.

Reciprocating rod lift

Reciprocating rod lift (RRL remains the most widely
utilized method of artificial lift around the globe. Coiled
rod can complement most RRL systems, particularly those
producing from horizontal, or directional well profiles.
Pro-Rod® enhances these systems by reducing tubing wear,
improving pump and surface equipment efficiencies, and
increasing production in both light-and heavy-oil applications.

Eliminating rod couplings along the entire length of a rod

string achieves several key efficiencies to reduce lifting
costs, including:

■ Precludes rod coupling failures (the majority

of rod string failures are confined to the coupling/
upset area);

■ Reduces tubing wear by distributing

contact loads over a larger area;

■ Reduces rod stress;

■ Creates unrestricted laminar flow through

uniform rod diameter;

■ Eliminates the piston effect common to conventional

sucker rods, which reduces friction and increases
plunger travel for increased production; and
APPLICATION/WELL CONFIGURATIONS
APPLICATION/WELL CONFIGURATIONS
■ Makes Pro-Rod a more efficient and longer-
®
Light, medium & heavy crude
running alternative to coupled sucker rods. ■ Light, medium & heavy crude
■ ThermalThermalapplications
applications
̵ - Cyclic
Cyclic steam
Steam stimulation
Stimulation
Coiled rod lowers maintenance costs by reducing overall
rod stress and tubing wear, particularly in the case of ̵ - Steam
Steam Flood
flood
- SAG-D
deviated wells. With lower rod stresses, surface drives ̵ SAG-D
can be downsized to lower capital and energy costs while ■ Horizontal, deviated and vertical wells
■ Horizontal,
Deep wellsdeviated and vertical wells
downhole pumps can be upsized to provide increased
production rates. The absence of couplings also creates ■ Deep wells well design
Slim-hole
a more uniform diameter, resulting in reduced pressure Slim-hole well design
losses, a lower likelihood of paraffin deposition and buildup,
and a less turbulent flow profile up the production tubing.

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Pro-Rod® applications

Progressing cavity pumping

Progressing cavity pump (PCP) systems are a popular lift
option in wells characterized by mid- to low-API gravity
oil. In many regions, this viscous oil is produced along with
sand (solids) cuts that create conditions unfavorable to the
utilization of conventional rod with couplings. The presence
of solids in a vortex condition around each coupling increases
the risk of an abrasive coupling failure. In addition, the flow
restrictions created by the couplings decreases the pump’s
ability to effectively lift fluid/solids to surface.

The streamlined profile of Pro-Rod® coiled rod helps to enhance

the operational efficiency of PCP systems by reducing rod and
tubing wear as well overall rod stress. Lower rod stress allows
the operator to downsize the surface, drive, thus lowering
operating costs, or upsize the PC pump to increase flow rates
to the surface. The streamlined profile of coiled rod enables
laminar flow of fluids to surface, which minimizes problems
associated with solids falling out. This profile also allows for
coiled tubing clean-outs to remove solids down to the top of
the pump. Moreover, without having to make up a coupling
connection every 25 feet, Pro-Rod® strings are installed faster
and with less manpower.

ELIMINATE
ELIMINATEROD COUPLING
ROD COUPLING FAILURES
FAILURES
WITH PRO-ROD ® COILED ROD
WITH PRO-ROD COILED ROD
®

APPLICATION/WELL CONFIGURATIONS
APPLICATION/WELL CONFIGURATIONS
■ Light, medium
Light, medium,& heavy crude crude
and heavy
■ Cold Coldheavy-oil production
heavy-oil with
production sand
with
(CHOPS)
sand (CHOPS)
Thermal
■ Thermal applications
applications
- Cyclic steam stimulation
̵ Cyclic steam stimulation
- Steam flood
̵ - SAG-D
Steam flood
■ ̵ Horizontal,
SAG-D slant, deviated
and vertical
Horizontal, wells
slant, deviated and vertical wells
■ Polish rod-less systems
Polish rod-less systems

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C H A M P I O N X Artificial Lift

Elevating artificial lift performance

ChampionX offers the industry’s most comprehensive line of With industry-leading artificial lift technologies and technical
artificial lift equipment, accessories and services strategically proficiencies, ChampionX is committed to providing highly
designed to drive the operational excellence of each of our reliable and innovative solutions such as Pro-Rod® coiled rod
clients. We provide best-in-class systems and components to enable customers to optimize the operational metrics of
engineered to enhance the profitability of ESP lift, gas lift, every well in their portfolios. Contact a Pro-Rod representative
plunger lift, hydraulic lift, rod lift, progressing cavity pump today to find out how coiled rod can elevate the bottom-line
applications and surface production, as well as state-of-the-art performance of even your most demanding rod pump and
software and products for well automation, analysis, progressing cavity pump applications.
and optimization.

As an organization dedicated to the needs of our clients, we

place a consultative service and support approach at the
forefront of our operations. Driven by a team of veteran artificial
lift experts, our mission is to deeply understand the complex
production challenges faced by well operators on a daily basis,
and provide them the exact sets of tools needed to overcome
those challenges as efficiently and effectively as possible.

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