Contemporary issues of well operation using centrifugal pumps

Abstract

This paper opens a new page in the theory of electric-centrifugal pump control and oil production. Emerging ideas give us the opportunity to predict the state of a centrifugal pump during operation, facilitate a new approach to the centrifugal-pump selection procedure, provide a scientific explanation of the separation process, explore scaling processes in centrifugal pumps, develop salt-deposition prediction methods and bring us closer to a scientific basis for automation of the entire pump-operation process. Implementation in oil-recovery practice of the findings developed in this collection of articles will surely enhance the economic efficiency of the method under consideration and allow for the creation of an environmentally-friendly method of oil production. Obtained results are fundamental and form the basis of the centrifugal-pump control theory.