Paper: Pumping Well Failure Analysis Using Electronic Data Processing Techniques

The control of pumping well failures at an optimum level requires access to equipment failure and maintenance records which adequately describe performance. It is necessary to know where failures and maintenance are occurring, what equipment is involved, the location and cause of failure, the nature of maintenance and costs. Problem wells can thus be isolated and corrective measures initiated. Further, it is possible to evaluate new materials, producing practices and inhibition methods to generally improve the performance of downhole equipment in all wells. Electronic data processing is a means of providing operating personnel with a complete failure and maintenance record in a form which permits accurate, continuous analysis of equipment performance.