Friday, July 2, 2010
Partial History of Circumferential Displacement
Russell Stevens gives a brief history of tests done on coupling design technology using old sketches, past and present photography, and flow charts on the life of a bolted joint.
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
Sucker Rod Characteristics and Updated Displacement Values - UPCO
Arun Sriraman gives a presentation on the factors of choosing a sucker rod. Stess strain curves and graphs about sucker rod toughness are included.
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Monday, June 28, 2010
Strain Gauge Testing and Analysis on the Factors Affecting Sucker Rod Coupling Make-Up - UPCO
Arun Sriraman gives a presentation on three main parameters of comparison for sucker rod coupling. Interesting graphs on strain and various tests that were performed are included.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
XANIMATE 2.0 - New and Improved High Quality Rod Pumping Animations
John Svinos shows the new version of XANIMATE and talks about the new animations, features and compatibility with Windows 7 and Vista.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
XSPOC at the Rod Pumping Optimization Course
Terry Treiberg of Theta Oilfield Services gives a presentation at our Rod Pumping Optimization course on XSPOC. Multiple reasons to use XSPOC are given with interesting examples showing how to increase revenue.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
XANIMATE Educational Animations Software From Theta
State of the Art Animations Show How Rod Pumping Systems and Downhole Pumps work.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
XROD-V and Deviated Wells
John Svinos teaches the audience at the Southwest Petroleum Short Course about XROD and RODSTAR. The history and layout of these two programs is covered along with some examples.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Visualization of the Operation of the Sucker Rod Pump & Downhole Gas Separators
Tony Podio gives two presentations at the Southwest Petroleum Short Course.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Acoustic Liquid Level Tests Applied to Sucker Rod Lift
Jim McCoy gives a presentation on how to use acoustic liquid level tests to optimize well production. Jim's presentation also has a heavy focus on equations that help calculate different types of downhole pressure.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Rod Pump Controllers
Andy Cordova talks about the various rod pump controllers and the technology associated with them. Pump Card comparisons with explanations of the variations are also included.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The New Fiberod Stress Range Diagram
Fred Morrow with John Crane Production Solutions and John Svinos of Theta Oilfield Services discuss the new Fiberod stress range diagram implemented in the latest versions of RODSTAR, XROD, XDIAG, and RODDIAG.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2010
Sam Gibbs' tribute to Joe Byrd in 2005 (Powerpoint Presentation)
Powerpoint presentation given by Dr. Sam Gibbs in 2005 in honor of Joe Byrd, the inventor of the Mark II pumping unit, on the day of Joe’s 90th birthday in Lufkin TX.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Sam Gibbs' tribute to Joe Byrd in 2005
Video of a presentation given by Dr. Sam Gibbs in 2005 in honor of Joe Byrd, the inventor of the Mark II pumping unit, on the day of Joe’s 90th birthday in Lufkin TX.
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Monday, April 5, 2010
Causes of Sucker Rod Failures
Scott Malone of Norris Rods speaks about various causes of rod failures. Some of the topics covered are failure analysis, types of corrosion, fatigue failure, and picking the right rod guide.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Conditions Concerning Incomplete Pump Fillage
Lynn Rowland gives an in depth look at the three conditions at the pump intake that can lead to problems in fillage. Lynn describes how these conditions are related to rod buckling, slippage, and other pump malfunctions while giving insight on how to avoid these problems.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Coupling Friction in HDPE Lined Tubing
Mike Berry presents the differences in friction on roller tubing, steel tubing, and polylined tubing. Each kind of tubing is compared with the other using advanced friction testing and data modeling designed to show how the tubing reacts to different temperatures.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Investigation of Sucker Rod Lift Problems
John Sparks talks about his investigations as a well tech and the various problems he encountered.
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Thursday, Mar 18, 2010
Plunger Lift Optimization - Audio Only
Dan Phillips of ConocoPhillips discusses optimization and automation of plunger lift wells. We do not have a presentation because ConocoPhillips did not want it publicized. So, this will be an audio only podcast.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The Impact of Flowline Back Pressure on Measured Surface Loads
James Harris of H&H Well Services, LLC discusses the effect of back pressure on measured surface dynamometer card loads.
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Tubing Anchor Catcher
Phil Burke with Key Energy discusses TAC tension setting.
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Benefits of Various BPU Geometries
Jeff Dacunha of Spirit explains the benefits of common pumping unit geometries.
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Automated / Robotic Pulling Unit
Fred Newman discribes the future of the Pulling Unit Automation.
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Monday, February 01, 2010
Using Infrared Thermography for Tanks and Vessells
This presentation discusses how infrared thermography is used for tanks and vessels.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Designing with Glass Rods
Fred Morrow discusses how to design rod pumping systems using fiberglass sucker rods.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Constant Build Rate vs. Changing Build Rate
Fred Morrow discusses how to design deviated wells for constant side loads.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Shear Pins and On-Off Tools
Fred Morrow discusses how to design shear pins and on-off tools.
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Proper Grounding and TVSS Installation
Proper Grounding and TVSS Installation Reduces Electrical Maintenance by 65%. 2009 Artificial Lift Forum presentation by Salvatore F. Grande III, Magney Grande and Kenneth Lacey of Custom Submersible.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
The Duralift Pumping Unit
The Duralift pumping unit by Jonh Laney of OXY and Larry Best with Chaparral Automation.
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Using Artificial Intelligence to Design Rod Pumping Systems
2009 Artificial Lift Forum presentation by John Svinos of Theta Oilfield Services, Inc.
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Minimizing Rod Buckling to Reduce Tubing Failures Using Sinker Bars
2009 Artificial Lift Forum presentation by David Bishop of Fasken Oil and Ranch, LTD and Scott Long of Flexbar, Inc.
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Friday, December 04, 2009
Beam Well Head Compression
2009 Artificial Lift Forum presentation by Jerry Harrison of OXY and Charlie McCoy of Permian Production Equipment, Inc.
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Optimizing the Co$t of Paraffin Treatments
2009 Artificial Lift Forum presentation by Albert S. Garza of Pioneer Natural Resources
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Friday, September 18, 2009
Jim McCoy: Acoustic Liquid Level Measurements
Jim McCoy, the owner and founder of Echometer discusses how to use acoustic liquid level tests to help you optimize pumping system production capacity.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Geared Centrifugal Pump
This Podcast describes a new Geared Centrifugal Pump (GPC) system. This system allows high volume artificial lift by using a progressive cavity pump style rotating rod string that drives a bottom intake ESP style multi-stage centrifugal pump via a downhole speed increasing transmission.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Linear Actuator Versus Beam Pumps
This Podcast describes the differences between traditional beam pumping systems and a new pumping system that uses a Linear Actuator for lifting the rods. This new system is less massive than comparable walking beam units and can be mounted directly to the well head. Also, linear pumping units provide independent control of upstroke and downstroke peak velocities as well as the shape of the velocity profile.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Using Wellview for Failure Analysis at ConocoPhillips. Video Version.
Judy Roper with ConocoPhillips discusses the implementation of the Wellview failure tracking software at ConocoPhillips. Presented at the Midland Artificial Lift Forum on November 8, 2006. Video Version.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Integration of XSPOC and Wellview at ConocoPhillips. Video Version.
Dan Phillips with ConocoPhillips discusses the integration between XSPOC and Wellview. Presented at the Midland Artificial Lift Forum on November 8, 2006.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Extending Tubing Life with EndurAlloy Tubing
This Podcast describes how Pioneer Natural Resources was able to increase the mean time between tubing leaks by installing EndurAlloy tubing on 18 rod pumping wells.
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Well Weighing - A Lost Art
This Podcast describes the advantages of obtaining a thorough well analysis the old fashioned way and gives examples of how a dynamometer and fluid level analysis outweigh any other type of study that can be performed.
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Friday, May 01, 2009
PNR Training on Rod Pump Tagging
This Podcast describes the training developed for the Employees of Pioneer Natural Resources regarding the issue of pump tagging and its effects on the entire pumping system.
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Thursday, Apr 02, 2009
Theta Oilfield Services Software
John Svinos gives a brief description of all Theta Oilfield Services Software in this Power Point video presentation.
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Tuesday, Dec 30, 2008
How to use XDIAG
A brief explanation of how to use XDIAG by John Svinos
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Monday, Dec 15, 2008
Sam Gibbs - Video PowerPoint Presentation
Dr. Sam Gibbs discusses the history of the dynamometer and Wave Equation diagnostic method. (Video Version)
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Wednesday, Dec 03, 2008
Sam Gibbs - Audio Only
Dr. Sam Gibbs discusses the history of the dynamometer and Wave Equation diagnostic method. (Audio Version) Listen in.
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Thursday, Apr 22, 2008
Introducing XROD-V
Introductory presentation on the soon-to-be-released XROD-V product. Using artificial intelligence technology, XROD-V will take the design of Rod Pumping Systems to a whole new level of automation.
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Tuesday, Nov 20, 2007
HES Benefits of XSPOC
John Svinos and Marlene Leonard of Theta Oilfield Services discuss XSPOC features that can affect Health, Environmental, and Safety (HES) needs of oil companies. Listen in.
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Thursday, Oct 18, 2007
Hess Corp. - Randy King
Randy King, production supervisor with Hess Corp. in Seminole, TX discusses an environmentally friendly stuffing box and optimizing gassy rod pumping wells. Listen in.
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Monday, May 14, 2007
Fred Morrow - Part 2.
Fred Morrow and John Svinos discuss topics related to rod pumping system diagnostic analysis and design. Listen in.
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Monday, May 07, 2007
Fred Morrow - Part 1.
Fred Morrow and John Svinos discuss the Permissible Load HP and many other topics related to pumping units and system design. Listen in.
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Monday, April 30, 2007
Vernon Mackie of ConocoPhillips on Gasssy Wells.
Vernon Mackie - Field technician with ConocoPhillips discusses polished rod spacers and gassy wells. Listen in.
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Monday, April 23, 2007
A New Look at the Old Way of Designing Sucker Rods.
Presentation by Fred Morrow on API RP-11L calculations. Listen in.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Pumping Unit Data Requirements for RODSTAR, RODDIAG, and XDIAG.
John Svinos discusses the data required to enter new pumping units in RODSTAR, RODDIAG, or XDIAG. Listen in.
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Thursday, January 4, 2007
Fiberglass Rod History and Application.
Fiberglass rod pioneer Russ Rutledge of Fibercom and Fred Morrow VP of Engineering for Fibercom discuss how fiberglass rods were developed and how they are used in the oilfield. Listen in.
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Tuesday, December 5, 2006
The new VFD from Lufkin Automation.
Mr. Andy Cordova, the North American Sales Manager for Lufkin Automation discusses the new Variable Frequency Drive they developed. Listen in.
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Friday, December 1, 2006
The SAM POC from Lufkin Automation.
Mr. Andy Cordova, the North American Sales Manager for Lufkin Automation discusses the state of the art SAM rod pump controller. Listen in.
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Monday, November 27, 2006
Using Wellview for Failure Analysis at ConocoPhillips.
Judy Roper with ConocoPhillips discusses the implementation of the Wellview failure tracking software at ConocoPhillips. Presented at the Midland Artificial Lift Forum on November 8, 2006. Listen in.
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Integration of XSPOC and Wellview at ConocoPhillips.
Dan Phillips with ConocoPhillips discusses the integration between XSPOC and Wellview. Presented at the Midland Artificial Lift Forum on November 8, 2006. Listen in.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
USC Rod Pumping Optimization Lecture.
John Svinos describes modern rod pumping optimization software to Petroleum Engineering students at University of Southern California. Listen in.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Nesmith & Svinos on RODSTAR support.
Rudy Nesmith and John Svinos discuss technical support and the new releases of RODSTAR. Listen in.
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Friday, July 21, 2006
Treiberg & Svinos on XSPOC automation.
Terry Treiberg and John Svinos describe the XSPOC automation software and how it can be used to save money by optimizing oilfield operations. Listen in.
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