ESP Nine Step Design Procedure

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By Islam Fetoui May 8, 2017

Centrilift has established a nine-step procedure to design the appropriate electrical

submersible pump in order to have an efficient and cost-effective performance. This
article gives an overview of the ESP nine step design procedure and outlines the
procedure as a manual process to illustrate the design steps. Each of the nine steps will
be explained in detail in the next articles.

Step 1: Basic Data

Step 2: Production Capacity
Step 3: Gas Calculations
Step 4: Total Dynamic Head
Step 5: Pump Type
Step 6: Optimum Size of Components
Step 7: Electric Cable
Step 8: Accessory & optional Equipment
Step 9: The Variable Speed Pumping System

Specific examples will be worked through in each step of the ESP design.

This nine step procedure is a basic hand-design of simple water and light crude oil. For
more complicated well conditions, such as high GOR, viscous oil, high-temperature wells,
there are many of available ESP design software (e.g. Prosper software – Product of
Petroleum Expert; Pipesim software – Product of Schlumberger; Autograph PC software
– Product of Baker Hughes; Solution Sizing Software – Product of General Electric;

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DesignRite Software – Product of Schlumberger). The fashion of use of each of these
ESP design software will be presented and explained in detail in upcoming articles in our
website.

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