Course objective

• Sucker rod pumping is the most common means of artificial lift used by the oil and gas production industry. It is simply a matter of using a positive displacement piston pump to bring produced fluids to the top of the well using a string of sucker rods and a string of tubing.

Course outline

• The Origin of Petroleum
• Basic Exploration
•  Basic Drilling and Completion
•  Basic Production Engineering
• Artificial Lift Method
• The Sucker Rod Pump
• The Hydraulic Pump
• The Submersible Pump
• Gas Lift
• Free Piston Lift
• Determining The Best Method For The Well

• Lease Considerations
• Well and Reservoir Analysis
• Equipment Parameters

• Conclusion

• The Sucker Rod Pump Lifting Method
• Background And History

• Sucker Rod Pumping
• The Pumping Unit
• The Wellhead
• The Polished Rod
• The Sucker Rod

• The Sucker Rod Pump

• Sucker Rod Pump Classifications
• API Pump
• API Pump Designations
• Tubing Pumps
  • Traveling Barrel, Bottom Hold-Down Insert Pumps
  • Stationary Barrel, Bottom Hold-Down Insert Pumps
  • Stationary Barrel, Top Hold-Down Insert Pumps
  • Stationary Barrel, Top and Hold-down Insert Pump

• Special Pumps

Pump Parts and Fittings

• Barrel Tubes
• Cages
• Plungers
• Balls and Seats
• Other Fittings
• Designing The Installation
• Analyses Of the Well
•  Selecting The Subsurface Oil Well Pump
• Determining The Pump Bore Size
• Choosing The Pump Type
•  Selection of Materials
• Beam pumping
• The Dynamometer Card
•  Determining Favorable Pumping Speeds
•  Establishing Production Rates
•  Peak Polished Rod Loads
• Maximum Rod Stress
• Minimum Polished Rod Load
• Polished Rod Load Range
• Peak Torque
•  Polished Rod Horsepower
•  Pump And Rod Installation Design
•  Plunger Slippage and Fits
• Designing the Sucker Rod String
• Specific Information Required
• Sucker Rod String Design Charts
•  The Rod String Load Ratio
•  Sucker Rod Couplings