Last updated: 2025-03-17

ESP Design, Operation & Troubleshooting

A comprehensive Online course covering most of the ESP best practices

 

1- The fundamentals of Electric submersible pumps.

2- ESP equipment selection and design consideration.

3- ESP component and their features.

4- ESP hand design.

5- ESP operations, monitoring and troubleshooting..

Last updated: 2025-03-17

Well and Surface Modeling

Day One :-

 - PIPESIM interface.
 - Changing the units system.
 - Nodal analysis overview.
 - VLP
 - IPR

Day Two :- 

Reservoir performance
 - Well performance equation
 - IPR for oil wells
 - IPR for gas wells
 - Predicting future IPR for gas wells ( Back pressure equation , Jones )

Vertical lift performance
 - Basic equation and concept (gravity ,acceleration and friction term)
 - Well flow correlation
 - Factor affecting well outflow performance

Day Three :- 

 - Adding deviation survey.
 - Adding down-hole equipment to the well model (SSSV, straddle PKR, SSD – selective
completion).
 - Perforation operation fundamentals and theory.
 - Perforation design and modelling by PIPESIM.
 - Flowing underbalance design modelling exercise.
 - Calculating skin.

Day Four:- 

- Introduction to artificial lift.
- When artificial lift is needed.
- ESP design sheet.
- ESP fundamentals and theory.
- ESP design using PIPESIM.

Day Five :-

- Well operating envelope.
- Well stimulation evaluation.
- Erosional velocity.
- Tubing size selection.
- Die out pressure and rate.
- Reservoir pressure estimation.