SRP DESIGN

• Design procedure of a conventional sucker rod pump system should start with a
preliminary selection of the components.
• By the help of the formulas, Tables and Figures operating characteristics of the
selected units are determined for the specified well conditions.
• Preliminary selected components have some limitations like, stress, load ratings,
and volumes.
• Calculated operating characteristics should be within those limits, if not the
procedure must be restart by changing the preliminary selected components.
• To reach the optimum selection more than one calculation of operating
characteristics is necessary.
• For a design calculation of conventional sucker rod system following data is
required or assumed: fluid Level (H), ft, pump depth (L), ft, pumping speed (N),
spm, length of surface stroke (S), in, pump plunger diameter (D), in, specific
gravity of the fluid (G), nominal tubing diameter, in, hanging condition of tubing,
anchored or not, sucker rod size, in.
 Step 1: Determining Rod and Plunger
Sizes
• While selecting the initial components some simplified Tables and Figures are used.
• Those Tables are developed from the conventional pumping equations with the
assumptions; lifted fluid has a specific gravity of 1 and pump setting depth is equal
to the working fluid level.
• In the example design of R-3 well Table 6.5 was used for determining rod sizes,
pumping speed and plunger size. Depending on the nominal tubing size and pump
setting depth (2 ½ in and 4100 ft);
Plunger Diameter (D), in = 1.75
Rod Sizes, in = 3/4, 7/8
Stroke Length (S), in = 64
Pumping Speed (N), spm = 18
• Using tubing size and pump depth data, plunger size, rod sizes, pumping
speed is obtained beside stroke length and API size of the unit.
• Rod weight (Wr, lb/ft), rod elastic constant (Er, in/lb-ft), tubing elastic
constant (Et, in/lb-ft), frequency factor (Fc) and percentages of the rods are
obtained from Table 6.6 and Table 6.7. If tubing is anchored Et is not
necessary.
Table 6.7:Tubing data of example well – R3
 Step 2: Calculation of Non-Dimensional
Parameters
• Next step is the calculation of non-dimensional variables.
• Those variables are rod stretch (Fo), rod stroke (Skr), spring constant for rod
(1/kr), spring constant for tubing (1/kt) and dimensionless pumping speed
(N/No’).
 Step 3: Calculation of Plunger Stroke and Pump
Displacement
• Figure 6.4 was used by the help of Fo/Skr and N/No’ calculated values to obtain
plunger stroke factor (Sp/S) to calculate the plunger stroke which is an effective
parameter in pump displacement (PD, bpd) equation.

• Pump displacement is a check point to evaluate the known or assumed

requirements if the calculated value fails to satisfy the desired value than
assumed data must be modified.
Figure 6.4: Plunger Stroke Factor
 Step 4: Determining Non-Dimensional Parameters
• Other non-dimensional parameters are peak polished rod load (F1/Skr),
minimum polished rod load (F2/Skr), peak torque (2T/S2kr), polished rod horse
power (F3/Skr) and adjustment for peak load (Ta).
• Those factors obtained from Figure 6.5 through 6.9 and they were used to
calculate the operating characteristics.
• Peak Polished Rod Load Factor: F1/Skr = 0.3 is obtained from Figure 6.5
Figure 6.5: Peak polished rod load factor
 Step 5: Calculation of Operating Characteristics
• Peak polished rod load (PPRL, lb), minimum polished rod load (MPRL, lb), peak
torque (PT, lb-in), polished rod horse power (PRHP, hp) and counterbalance
effect (CBE, lb) are the values need to be determined.
• Components of a conventional sucker rod pump system should meet those load
values.