Day One: Heavy Oil Production – Inflow and Outflow Relationships
- Heavy Oil Reservoir performance: wellbore and reservoir performance overview
- Pressure loss in the wellbore
- Well productivity
- Concepts of productivity index
- Inflow and outflow relationship
- Overview of artificial lift technology: sucker road pump design, hydraulic pump design, jet pump, gas lift, Electric Submersible Pump (ESP)
- Application of artificial lift technology and its limitations
- Artificial lift screening methods
Day 2: Sucker Rod Pumping
- Sucker rod pump concept
- Limitations and advantages of the sucker rod pumping system
- Components of the sucker rod pump
- Design of the sucker rod pump
- Troubleshooting of the sucker rod pump systems
Day three: PCP systems
- Concept of the Progressing Cavity Pump (PCP) pumps
- Limitation and advantages of the PCP pumps
- Best practices for installation and maintenance
- Troubleshooting of PCP pumps
- New technology of PCP pumps
Day four : ESP Systems
- Concept of the Electric Submersible Pump (ESP) system
- Equipment and accessories of the ESP systems
- ESP design: pump performance curves, pump intake curves, typical problems, installation, troubleshooting; best practices for installation and maintenance;
- Steps to correctly size an ESP system. basic sizing principles for the pump, motor and cable
- Importance of correctly matching well productivity to pump performance
- Use of data to diagnose well/equipment problems
- Limitations and advantages of the ESP system
Day 5: Heavy Oil Production Optimization
- Applications of Artificial Lift for heavy oil production.
- Case Studies
- Open discussion on client cases.