artificial lift

There will always be a need for good artificial lift engineers. So, what should the next generation of its professionals be trying to pursue?

This article describes how Oxy developed an in-house application to handle critical production operations tasks including surveillance, optimization, downtime entry, and well testing. The application, called Nexus, allows well analysts and production engineers to manage twice the number of wells they were able to manage just 5 years ago.

A pair of innovative field development strategies are helping tame the wild, wild Permian Basin.

In this second part of a two-part series on advances in artificial lift, we’ll look at the state of optimization and a trio of techniques and technologies under development or new to the market. Look for quarterly reviews of specific types of lift in upcoming issues in the new year.

In this first part of a two-part series, we look at how the artificial-lift sector has adapted to producing unconventional resources. The second part of the series to publish in November will crack open the lift toolbox to take a deeper look at the techniques and technologies under development or new to the market.

Digital systems are helping ensure US independent Diversified Energy continues to grow and optimize production from its mature assets.

A major variable in the life of a progressing cavity pump is the knowledge of those choosing and operating pumps that have their quirks.

The electrical submersible pump market is forecast to hit $6.7 billion in 2023.

PipeFractionalFlow, a spinoff startup from the University of Texas at Austin, uses new theories and equations to make modeling complex multiphase flow more affordable. A model recently developed offers operators an “independent and unbiased” way to validate the system and select candidate wells.