(01) SUCKER ROD PUMP ROOT CAUSE FAILURE ANALYSIS
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(01) SUCKER ROD PUMP ROOT CAUSE FAILURE ANALYSIS
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Fred W. Clarke
Murphy Exploration and Production
Producers can spend a significant amount of money repairing a sucker rod pump system without fully understanding the root cause of a failure. Incomplete, missing or incorrect data and over reliance on a supplier to “fix the problem” can be ineffective. Following “best practices” developed in other fields or generic “rules of thumb” may also lead to higher than expected failure rate especially in unconventional reservoirs.
Common practice of a “like for like” replacement may experience an early life failure resulting in another workover. This increases lifting cost and contributes to unfavorable well and field economics.
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