Wells – Processes – Producing the well
Patent
1987-12-22
1989-09-19
Kisliuk, Bruce M.
Wells
Processes
Producing the well
166105, 417443, 417444, 417554, E21B 4300, F04B 1922, F04B 2104, F04B 3910
Patent
active
048672424
ABSTRACT:
A gas lock breaker for oil well pumps includes a stationary barrel with a standing valve on the bottom, a reciprocating piston in the barrel with a traveling valve on the bottom of the piston, an unseating rod positioned above the standing valve and adapted to protrude into the traveling valve to unseat the ball closure thereof near the bottom extremity of the downstroke of the piston. For a conventional well of any normal depth equipped with a pump jack for piston displacement anywhere in the range of 1 to 5 meters (3.3 to 16.4 feet), the unseating rod protrudes through the traveling valve a distance of about 1 to 15 percent of the piston stroke, or about 5 to 13 cm. (2 to 5 in.). The standing valve cage is preferably 12 to 20 cm. (4.75 to 8.0 in.), and the traveling valve is set to approach within 15 to 30 cm. (6 to 12 in.) of the standing valve. The initial space in the barrel between the traveling and standing valves at the maximum extremity of the piston upstroke is compressed on the downstroke to about 1 to 15 percent of the initial space when the rod unseats the ball closure. An initial space to space at unseating position compression ratio in the range of 10:1 to 12:1 is preferred, and the ball closure is opened by the rod during about 2 to 4 percent of the stroke travel.
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Amerada Minerals Corporation of Canada, Ltd.
Kisliuk Bruce M.
Young James R.
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