Day One: Well Performance
- Reservoir drive mechanisms & fundamentals
- Inflow Performance Relationship
- Vertical Lift Performance
- Nodal Analysis
Day Two: Artificial Lift Selection and Surface Pumping Units
- Artificial Lift Methods
- Typical selection criteria
- Applications and limitations across Artificial Lift types
- Surface Pumping unit fundamentals
- Standard designations
- Prime mover overview
- Unit Selection Methodology
Day Three: Sucker Rods & Tubing
- Rod types
- Metallurgy basics
- Rod string design
- Group rod selection
- Rod string design
- Care & handling best practices
- Causes of common failures
- Failure identification exercise
Day Four: Downhole Sucker Rod Pumps
- Pump types and designation
- Causes of common failures
- Pump Design
- Gas Separators
- Troubleshooting
Day Five: Optimization of Sucker Rod Systems
- Dynamometer Surveys & Dynamometer card interpretation
- The optimization process & system design
- Application considerations with effect on full system