Paper: Designing With Fiberglass Sucker Rods

The fiberglass sucker rod design process has come a long way since the introduction of fiberglass sucker rods in the late 1970"s. For the past 15 years fiberglass sucker rods have continued to gain acceptance in the oil field as a viable means to enhance the capabilities of beam pumping systems. With the advent of affordable predictive computer programs, in combination with this continued success and acceptance, more producers are finding themselves faced with the challenge of designing beam lift systems that utilize fiberglass sucker rods. The purpose of this paper is to give the designer of beam lift systems some guidelines to become more effective when designing optimum fiberglass sucker rod beam lift systems.