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double valves, 24 sucker rod guides, 38
hydraulic piston pumps, sensitivity to, sucker rod pumping, 2. See also reciprocating rod lift.
118−119 sucker rods
plunger lift, 93 about, 2
prevention, 11 API sucker rods, 34–35
removal of, 34, 93 connections, 33, 35, 64
sucker rods, 34 continuous rods, 36
screw pumps, 2 fiberglass, 36
sensor systems, 126 handling, 38
slippage, 22, 48, 63−64, 67−68 hollow, 36−37
soap sticks, 104 non-API connections, 35
soft cups versus hard cups, 23 non-API sucker rods, 35
solution drive wells, 8 tapered, 35
standing check valve, gas lift, 87 Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
standing check valve, plunger lift, 98 (SCADA), 53, 124, 127−128
standing valve surface controller, 93
electric submersible pumps (ESPs), 48, 53 surface drivehead, 2, 59, 62, 70−71
gas lift, 84, 87 surface lubricator, 93, 98
hydraulic lift, 112 surface rod pumping units
plunger lift, 93−94 about, 27
reciprocating rod lift, 13−14, 16−19, 21−22, beam balanced units, 30, 42
24, 42 classification of, 27, 42
static gas separators, 50 conventional beam (pumping) units, 27−28, 42
static level, 41, 76, 86 cost associated with, 27
static pressure, 93 front-mounted geometry crank counter
balance units, 29, 42
stationary barrel bottom anchor pump, 22 hydraulic pumping units, 32, 42
stationary barrel top anchor pump, 21 long-stroke pumping units, 30−31, 42
stick-slip, 70 low-profile pumping units, 32, 42
straight string, 41 phased crank counterbalance units, 30, 42
subsurface flowmeter, 126 surface tension, 3, 9, 101−103, 106, 108
subsurface pumps system components of electric submersible
API nomenclature, 26 pumps (ESPs)
dewatering, 102 electric controls, 53
electric submersible pumps (ESPs), 46−47 intake or gas separator, 46, 48, 50, 56
hydraulic pumps, 4, 10 motor, 2, 46, 48−50, 53, 55, 56
progressing cavity pumps (PC pumps or motor seal section, 50−51
PCPs), 69 power cable, 48, 52−53
rod pumping system design, 2, 40 pump assembly, 48, 52, 56
rod string, 33, 36 standing valve, 48, 53
subsurface rod pump, 17, 27 subsurface pump assembly, 46, 56
subsurface safety valves (SSSVs), 10, 16, 44, 61 wellhead, 53−54

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