Artificial Lift Methods

This book covers the main artificial lift methods used on hydrocarbon reservoirs whose pressure is declining. The methods covered are the sucker rod pump, gas lift, electrical submersible pump, progressive cavity pump and plunger lift. For each one, the book discusses design, applications and troubleshooting.

Each chapter includes examples, exercises and design projects to support the concepts it presents. The book also looks at the problems of recovering oil from horizontal wells, and the author proposes solutions to the extraction challenges these wells pose.

The book responds to the difficulties of unconventional oil sources and declining wells. It is written for students of petroleum engineering, researchers in hydrocarbon recovery and practicing engineers in the petroleum industry.