Paper: Review of Downhole Dynamometer Testing

Electronic Downhole Load Cells (DKLC) have been used to quantify rod loadings calculated by predictive and diagnostic wave equation programs. Test results to date show that software calculations agree closely with DHLC measurements. However, there is a difference in how software programs account for buoyant forces which results in discrepancies in reported loads and placement of the zero load line. The overall impact of this difference in the tests run to date. has not been large and may only be critical in the most demanding rod pumping conditions.