ESP System

Basic Overview

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Typical ESP Completion
Downhole Equipment
 Bolt-on-head
 Centrifugal Pump
 Intake or Gas Separator
 Motor Seal
 Motor
 Downhole Monitoring
System
Surface equipment
 Transformer(s)
 Switchboard or VFD
 Junction (Vent) Box
 Wellhead Cable Penetrator
Run Animation

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 Centrifugal Pump
Basic Overview

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Pump Introduction
 Installed on Top Side
 Hang on production tubing BOH
 Use Bolt on (discharge)
head (BOH) Pump

Intake

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Centrifugal Pumps
The term “centrifugal pump”
has been used to describe a
wide variety of pumping
applications and designs
throughout the years.

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Centrifugal Pumps –
Definition
A Centrifugal Pumps is a machine that
moves fluid by spinning it with a
rotating impeller in a diffuser that has
a central inlet and a tangential outlet.
The path of the fluid is an increasing
spiral from the inlet at the center to the
outlet tangent to the diffuser.
The pressure (head) develops against
the inside wall of the diffuser because
the curved wall forces fluid to move in a
circular path rather than by converting
velocity head to (pressure) head
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 Pump Dynamics
• Fluid accelerates to out
Shaft Rotation
the vain passage as
the shaft rotates
increasing the velocity
of the fluid (Velocity
Head)

• There is a controlled
deceleration of the fluid
in diffuser increasing
the fluid pressure
(Pressure Head)

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The ESP centrifugal
pump is a multistage
pump, containing a
selected number
(application dependent)
of impellers equipped
with vanes, inside a
closely fitted diffuser,
located in series an
axial shaft, driven by
the electrical motor.
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A centrifugal pump creates pressure
by the rotation of a series of vanes in
an impeller.

The motion of the impeller forms a

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The impeller’s job is to transfer
energy by rotation to the liquid
passing through it, thus raising the
kinetic energy.

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The diffuser section then converts
this energy to potential energy,
raising the discharge pressure.

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Outside forces, such as the
atmospheric pressure or weight of a
column of liquids, push fluid into
the impeller eye and out to the
periphery of the impeller

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Each "stage" consists of an
impeller and a diffuser.
Again, the impeller takes
the fluid and imparts
kinetic energy to it. The
diffuser converts this
kinetic energy into
potential energy (head).

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-Well fluid come in through the
intake,
into the lower diffuser.
-Impeller push the fluid along the
opening vane to the diffuser.

-Diffuser directs the fluid direction

up
and changes the kinetic force
into potential force or pressure.
-Number of stage determine
head developed, and also determines
the
Horsepower requirement.

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From there, the
rotation of the high-
speed impeller
throws the liquid
into the diffuser.

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Overall, the pumps main function is
to lift fluid from one level to
another.

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 Thrust washer
Impeller
Diffuser
Complete Stage

PUMP

Pump
stages INTAKE

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PUMP IMPELLER
Type of the impeller :
- Floater, individual free moving to the shaft
- Compression, move all together with the shaft

Impeller construction design:

- Radial flow (Pancake), usually for small range prod.capacity
- Francis , usually for med. Range prod. capacity
- Mixed flow , usually for big production pump

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 Pancake

Francis

Mixed flow

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Pump Animation
Pump Animation

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