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    PCP (Progressive Cavity Pump)

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    A progressive cavity pump is a type of positive displacement pump used for artificial lift, especially in challenging applications like heavy oil wells. It consists of a downhole pump with a rotor inside a stator. This provides key advantages over other pumps like the ability to lift high volumes of fluids over long distances. While it has a shorter operating life than alternatives, it is well-suited to situations with sand, water or viscosity issues that hamper other pump types.

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    A progressive cavity pump is a type of positive displacement pump used for artificial lift, especially in challenging applications like heavy oil wells. It consists of a downhole pump with a rotor inside a stator. This provides key advantages over other pumps like the ability to lift high volumes of fluids over long distances. While it has a shorter operating life than alternatives, it is well-suited to situations with sand, water or viscosity issues that hamper other pump types.

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    A progressive cavity pump is a type of positive displacement pump used for artificial lift, especially in challenging applications like heavy oil wells. It consists of a downhole pump with a rotor inside a stator. This provides key advantages over other pumps like the ability to lift high volumes of fluids over long distances. While it has a shorter operating life than alternatives, it is well-suited to situations with sand, water or viscosity issues that hamper other pump types.

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    PCP (Progressive Cavity Pump)

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    A progressive cavity pump is a type of positive displacement pump used for artificial lift, especially in challenging applications like heavy oil wells. It consists of a downhole pump with a rotor inside a stator. This provides key advantages over other pumps like the ability to lift high volumes of fluids over long distances. While it has a shorter operating life than alternatives, it is well-suited to situations with sand, water or viscosity issues that hamper other pump types.

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    Progressive cavity pumps (PCPs) are a type of positive displacement pump used for artificial lift in oil and gas wells. They work by using a rotating eccentric screw mechanism to lift fluids to the surface.

    The main components of a PCP system include surface equipment like a drive head assembly and variable frequency drive, and downhole equipment like a stator, rotor, and production tubing.

    Some applications of PCP systems include lifting sand-laden heavy crude oil and bitumen, dewatering high-water cut or gas wells like coal bed methane wells, and operating in deviated or horizontal well configurations.

    PCP (Progressive Cavity Pump)

    • A Progressive cavity pump is a type of positive displacement pump


    and is also known as a progressing cavity pump, eccentric screw
    pump or cavity pump.
    • They are increasingly used for artificial lift, and have been adapted
    to a range of challenging lift situations (e.g., heavy oil, high sand
    production, gassy wells, directional or horizontal wells). This page
    provides an introduction to PCP systems.

    • The two key features that differentiate PCP systems from other
    forms of artificial lift are the downhole PC pumps and the
    associated surface drive systems.

    • Although other major components, such as the production tubing


    and sucker rod strings, are found in other downhole lift systems,
    the design and operational requirements typically differ for PCP
    applications.

    PC Pumping Systems typically consist of the


    following components:
    ➢ Surface Equipment
    Drive head assembly
    VFD (Variable Frequency Drive)
    Down hole gauge Panel (Geophysical
    Research Company)
    BOP (Blow Out Preventer)
    ➢ Down hole equipment
    Stator (Stationary with tubing)
    Rotor (Internal & Rotary with drive rods)
    PCP System Configuration
    Surface Equipment Down Hole Equipment

    General Features
    Applications:

    ➢ Sand-laden heavy crude oil and bitumen


    ➢ High-water cuts
    ➢ Various oil gravities with limits on H2S, CO2 and
    aromatics
    ➢ Dewatering gas wells, such as coal bed methane projects
    ➢ All well types including horizontal, slant, directional and
    vertical
    Advantages:

    ➢ Pump high volumes (800+ m3/day)


    ➢ Lift capacities of up to 2000 meters
    ➢ Pump a range of Oil Gravity’s from 5 to 35 API.
    ➢ Pump 100 % H2O
    ➢ Pump high density & viscosity fluids.
    ➢ Pump high concentrations of slurries.

    Disadvantages:

    ➢ Short operating life (2-5 years)


    ➢ Elastomers in stator swell in some well fluids.
    ➢ Lose efficiency with depth.

    PCP Comparison with ESP:

    Electrical Submersible Pumping:


    ➢ Very complex system. MTBF (mean time between failures) average
    around 2 ½ year worldwide.
    ➢ Can be applicable to a wide range of flowrates from 100 bpd up to
    100,000 bpd but efficiency.
    ➢ reduces with a decrease in flowrate.
    ➢ Investment cost directly related to the depth due to cable cost and
    motor horsepower.
    ➢ Casing size is not critical for high flowrates.
    ➢ Requires work-over to remove a conventional unit although cable
    and coil deployed options are available.
    ➢ Electrical systems is the weak link and requires a stable source of
    electricity.
    ➢ Electrical system (cable, motor and protector) very sensitive to
    operating temperature.
    ➢ Can be flexible with the use of a Variable Speed Drive (VSD). Very
    delicate installation and a high rate of “infant mortality”.
    ➢ May have problems with scale, sand and wax.

    Progressive Cavity Pump:


    ➢ Is a positive displacement pump that does not rely on valves to
    pump fluids.
    ➢ Usually has a stator made of an elastomer. Stator
    material is sensitive to oil.
    ➢ composition (aromatics) and temperature.
    ➢ Has higher tolerance to free gas than beam pumping, but excess gas
    can also cause.
    ➢ lack of lubrication and cooling as well as chemical problems with
    the elastomer.
    ➢ May have problems with deviated and crooked wells.
    ➢ Applicable for low to medium flowrates.

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