Paper: Designing and Applying The Oil Field Submersible Pump

In designing a submersible pump for an oil well application, the engineer can benefit greatly from the proper use of well data and conditions under which the pump will be operating. It would, of course, be easy to select a pump size if it were already established that the well could produce some given amount of fluid needed to make it a profitable operation. However, the submersible, like any other piece of equipment must be designed with a number of factors taken into account. Accurate well data and well-kept well production records can be of great value to the person designing a submersible installation.