Hydraulic Jet Pumps

Casing Casing Tubing

Lock &
Upper Lock
Tubing Coiled Packer
Seal
or Nose
Upper
Macaroni
Tubing Coiled Tubing
Packer or
Macaroni
Tubing “Free”
Jet
Pump
Bottom
Hole
Assembly
Gas Nozzle
Lift
Mandrel
Sliding Throat
Sleeve

Diffuser

Bottom
Lower Hole
Seal Assembly

Equalizing
Retrievable Check
Standing Valve
Lower Pump Valve
Tubing Seat
Packer Packer

Packer

Casing

Sliding Sleeve Tubing / Packer Fixed Insert Fixed Casing Standard Single High Volume Reverse
Seal Jet Circulation

The Standard Single Seal Jet Pump is shown landed in a bottom

Applications & Designs
Weatherford's Jet Pumps can be adapted to
run in a wide variety of bottom hole cavities
and downhole tools. The actual working
components of the Jet Pump the nozzle,
throat and diffuser are assembled in a
variety of configurations and materials to
suit the production requirements and the
downhole environment. Shown above are
some of the more common Jet Pump
applications.
hole assembly designed for a hydraulic piston pump. This design
permits adaptation to a wide assortment of bottom hole
assemblies from many manufacturers. As a “Free Pump”, the unit
may be retrieved merely by changing the flow of power fluid down
the casing annulus, unseating the pump and returning it to the
surface.
The High Volume Jet Pump is also shown in a “Free Pump”
configuration. Due to the enlarged fluid passageways of the High
Volume Jet, a special bottom hole assembly is required. The High
Volume Jet Pump can also be run in a reverse circulation mode.
As shown, the reverse circulation design is not a “Free Pump”, but
is held in place by means of a top lock/mechanical holddown. It is
easily installed and retrieved using conventional wireline fishing
tools.
The Sliding Sleeve Jet Pump design has become popular in
particular with offshore operators. Primarily run in a reverse
circulation mode with a top lock, the Sliding Sleeve version can
also be run on tubing if desired. Platform operators using electric
submersible pumps have found that the Sliding Sleeve Jet The Fixed Insert and Fixed Casing Jet Pump were
Pump can be run in, to continue to produce a well when the designed to be run in existing production tubing or
ESP has shut down. Weatherford's Sliding Sleeve Jet casing. The Fixed Insert is normally run inside
Pumps have been widely accepted and are especially production tubing on a macaroni string and seated
suited for drill stem testing, because surface pumps are metal-to-metal on the previous pump seat.
already in place and well production capacity is uncertain Produced fluid and exhausted power fluid flow up
(jet pumps can operate at less than 5 percent of rated the production tubing annulus. The Fixed Casing
capacity without damage to the pump). design also run in on macaroni tubing seats on a
casing packer. Production is returned up the
The Tubing/Packer Jet Pump can be installed in a well by casing annulus.
wireline methods without first pulling the tubing. As shown,
this design has wireline-set tubing packers at the top and
bottom of the pump and straddling a gaslift mandrel. An
alternate design straddles wireline perforated tubing
perforations. If a seating nipple exists at the proper depth, it
can be substituted for the bottom tubing packer. Circulation
can be up or down the tubing.

How it Works Power Fluid

Pressure
Power fluid at high pressure (low velocity)
is converted to a low pressure (high
velocity) jet by the nozzle. The pressure at
the entrance of the throat becomes lower
as the power fluid rate is increased. When
this pressure becomes lower than the
pressure in the suction passageway, fluid is
drawn in from the wellbore. The suction
fluid becomes entrained with the high
velocity jet and the pumping action then
begins. After mixing in the throat, the
combined power fluid and suction fluid is Power Fluid
slowed down by the diffuser. Because the Velocity
velocity is reduced, the pressure increases
rising to a value sufficient to pump the fluid Nozzle Throat Diffuser
to the surface.
A full range of nozzle and throat sizes are
available to allow power fluid rate and
pressure to be varied to meet various
requirements.

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