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What is Plunger (or horse head) Pump?
In many cases all around the world, especially in old oil fields, fluid cannot flow on itself into the surface. This is a combination of reduced oil-bearing-matrix pressure and increasing liquid density due to increased ratio of water production. For this case, oil field operators utilized various in-well pumps to flow the liquid to surface and all the way to the final storage points. There are various type of pumps available for various well specifications and needs. There are Electric Submersible Pumps (ESP), Progressive-Cavity Pumps (PCP), and Plunger Pumps (the horse-head type). Plunger pumps consist of surface reciprocal driver. This driver can be mechanical or hydraulic. The driver will reciprocally pull and push a string of tubular. At the end of this tubular string is a tubular room. The tubular room will act as a scoop. The scooping action begins as the this scoop is being pushed down. A valve will open and allow the liquid inside the well to come into the tubular room. When the tubular room is being pulled upward, the valve will close and the liquid inside the tubular room will be transported into a circular room ouside the tubular string. The circular room is called Annulus. When the annulus is full, the liquid will overflow into the flowline on the surface thus flow into the production line and the storage tank. |
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