The article considers capabilities of the gas turbine engine to be used as a drive of the crude oil pump. It is noted that the gas turbine drive proves to be more advantageous than the electric motor when there is no external power supply or building periods of power transmission lines are significantly long, as well as quantities of oil products pumped are often changed.The main objective of this work is to select the optimum engine cycle parameters for a particular pump model, which oil pumping stations use. As an object of research, a crude oil pump of the НМ 10000 / 1.25-210 brand was chosen. The paper presents technical characteristics of the HM 10000 / 1.25-210 centrifugal pump and experimental values of head, power, and efficiency of the pump for a number of feeds. To obtain the pressure and power characteristics of a centrifugal pump for different rotational speeds of the rotor the similarity formulas are used.As the centrifugal pump drive, the paper considers a two-shaft plant with the free power turbine. This scheme was chosen in accordance with the features of the gas turbine pump unit at the oil pumping station. It is noted that the free power turbine scheme allows us to bring into accordance the characteristics of a gas turbine engine and an oil pump in abnormal modes, since there is no mechanical connection between high and low pressure turbines.The paper presents the calculated parameters of the gas turbine engine cycle with power Ne = 8 MW. The graphs show dependence of the airflow rate GB, the specific fuel consumption Ce and the efficiency ηe on the degree of pressure increase πk in the compressor. In accordance with the graphs, the optimum value of the degree of pressure increase πk = 15 in the compressor is adopted. With πk = 15, the specific fuel consumption in the gas turbine engine with power Ne = 8 MW is equal to Ce = 0,22 kg/kW*h and the airflow rate is GB = 20,5kg/s. The efficiency of the engine with the selected parameters is ηe = 38,4%.It is noted that in order to ensure the most economical gas turbine engine operation, it is necessary to select the optimal control program, which is determined taking into account the load characteristics, in this case the characteristics of the pump.