05.04: Dr. Gabor Takacs, Acting Director of the Petroleum Engineering Department has recently published a book by Elsevier's imprint Gulf Professional Publishing titled "ELECTRICAL SUBMERSIBLE PUMPS MANUAL".
This is the first book in the world petroleum literature entirely devoted to Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESP), the perhaps most versatile and profitable pieces of production equipment in a petroleum company's arsenal. ESPs are ideal for removing large and extreme amounts of liquids from wells and are believed to produce about 10% of the world's oil. The book covers the design, operation, optimization of ESP installations as well as the required equipment and procedures for analyzing and trouble-shooting. The necessary scientific background in electrics, hydraulics, and mechanics is fully explained and the construction and operation of system components (electric motors, centrifugal pumps, gas separators, cables, etc.) is detailed. The proper selection of system components is illustrated for several basic cases regularly met in the oilfield, and the use of ESPs in special conditions (gassy fluids, erosive wellstreams, variable frequency operations, etc.) is also described. The application of systems (Nodal) analysis to the design and analysis of ESP installations is the subject of a separate chapter.
