Presenters
Norman W. Hein, Harvest Operating & Associates, Russell Stevens, Norris/ A Dover Co.
A comparison was made between four commercially available sucker rod string design programs: Rod Star, S-Rod, Q-Rod, LoadCal B and a proprietary, modified API RP11L based program. These programs used the same input requirements, where applicable, and their outputs compared dynamometers cards from five different producing wells. The results show differences in the anticipated major design loads along with differences in the output information. Recommendations are made on potential changes to these programs and comments are made on things to consider when these programs are used.