In this video, we visited Tim from Ken Miller Supply in Reno, Ohio to show us how to tear down, clean, inspect, and reassemble a downhole rod pump. We see all the major components and learn how to take special …
In this video, Oilfield Basics contributor Joel Gremillion goes through a typical wellsite setup. On this well, it is being rod lifted (by pumpjack which is ran off the well’s own casing gas). He also explains separation equipment such as …
In this video, Derek walks through an old abandoned wellsite and provides his thoughts on the potential dangers and issues with abandoned wells.
In this video, we interview Scott Gillespie with Apergy, a company centered around artificial lift. Their rod-lift model is perfect for visually observing what happens downhole! In the model, we have a pump barrel, a traveling, and a standing valve. The traveling …
In this video we examine the wellhead setup of a conventional well on rod lift. Please note that wellheads in particular can be setup many different ways, but the fundamentals are always the same. Watching the video is always going …
In this video, I check out a local conventional wellsite in SW Ohio. This site, like many across our country, has a vertical conventional well on rod lift (with a pump jack). I start off by discussing some basics of …
As you drive across the vast United States, you might just see a lot of pumpjacks depending on where you’re at. This is for a number of reasons. In this video, we go on site to a pumpjack in the …