New downhole pump: Offers expanded technologies?

Welcome aboard, our niche is growing every day.

Working with Nationals and Internationals as an auditor, expeditor, inspector in mostly vendor surveillance, I see more work than I have in 35 years of doing this, not to mention all of the new Power Plants and Retrofts coming up.

With Steel Service Centers having trouble right now keeping stock on hand and at times a backlog in delivery of even small off the shelf items like flanges how will we supply the material, not to mention the crafts necessary to complete all of the planned projects.

For the record and to inform all of our cohorts in crime on C4, please generate a list of the National and International projects coming up.

I just finished Camisea Propane Project for Pisco, Peru and now starting an assignment for SAMIR in Morroco.

Thanks for a place to expound and ask questions.

"Recently Texas-based TexJet introduced a new downhole pump as a complete lift system. It's engineered to employ a well's natural energy with gas injection to create natural flow."

Just goes to prove there is nothing new under the sun. It is a glorified version of an aquarium bubble pump used to pump water and sediment off the top of the bottom sand to a filter above the top of the water for return to the aquarium.

A great adaptation of an old idea!

Hi, J.B. Avants, its seems easier to blow than suck. Bare with me, try and pull a vacuum as apposed to creating 5000 psi. You can only go negative, max 32 psi. after that everything starts to collapse. More than that, you start to suck the atmosphere out of the sky and the air out of the liquid you are trying to pump (vapour pressure). Pumps do not like to pump air, only fans do! So in order to get oil oil out, over 150 feet, you need a down hole pump or artificial atmosphere to create enough flow to a pump so it can lift the oil to the surface. Liquid gas is a good one. Pump, lets say Butane @ plus 3 Degrees C and by the time it hits the warm oil, it will expand by 600 to 1600%. Lots of push for a little bit of effort. Easier on seals and motors. Does this make sense??

Concept is nothing new, 'Air Lift Pumps' exist for a long.

TexJet has appropriated this type for oil well applications...