Designing Tools To Improve Rod Pumping Performance In Hostile Production Conditions

Abstract

In oil and gas industry, it is inevitable that the developed reserve will gradually become exhausted. Under such circumstance, in order to stabilize oil production and meet increasing energy demand, we have no choice but to improve oil recovery from matured field as much as possible, since finding new large reservoir is quite hard in the future. For Jidong Oilfield in China, a lot of method can be used for improving oil production, one of which is deep pumping method by increasing pump setting depth, especially for depleted reservoir. Deep pumping method can be helpful to lower bottom hole pressure and enlarge drawdown pressure between producing layer and downhole. Not only can this method generate more power to displace oil from reservoir to well and subsequently increase oil drainage area, leading to higher oil recovery, but also can boost pump fillage and finally obtain high production efficiency. Even though, this method still brings many disadvantages. In Jidong Oilfield, we sometimes set the 1.5in pump at over 3000m depth (in this paper, all well related are rod pumping wells), where varied problems happened as followed: