Artificial lift

The world of artificial lift has witnessed a remarkable revolution over the past 25 years, with many of the events and technology trends recorded in the Journal of Petroleum Technology.

Longtime leaders in artificial lift discuss and share their insights on the rapidly evolving segment’s past, present, and future.

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 paper discusses a new type of mechanical gas separator for electrical submersible pump systems that increases operating flow range and separation efficiency while decreasing erosion problems and improving reliability.

This paper presents an approach using artificial neural networks to predict the discharge pressure of electrical submersible pumps.

This paper aims to analyze the relevance of wind and solar energy for the supply of artificial lift systems on offshore platforms in the Brazilian equatorial region.

The papers described here focus on novel unconventional horizontal downhole pump card signatures, carbon reduction through alternative energy to pump wells, and predicting downhole-discharge pressure of ESPs.

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.

As production dynamics evolve over the full life cycle of a tight-oil play, a single artificial lift method may not be the most cost-effective solution.

This paper explores electrical submersible generator design considerations, theoretical underpinnings, and potential future applications.