Advanced Modeling for Diagnostics and Optimization of Oil Wells

Several thousand new pumpjacks are installed in Alberta oil fields each year. Hence, for obvious reasons, developing

efficient Pump-jack technology is important to the oil and gas community. The project investigates the process and control

systems with particular applications in dynamic modeling of oil and gas well pump-jacks which is also known as the

sucker-rod pumping systems. The objective of the MITACS Accelerate Internship is to develop a robust data- driven, realtime

modeling methodology of pump-jack systems using the data of the gathering downhole well characteristics. The

information from the developed real-time monitoring system will play an important role in designing and implementing

suitable control schemes to optimize the pump-jack process. The anticipated results will be potentially useful to oil and gas

industry in developing an efficient pump-jack system so that the productivity can be maximized.

Faculty Supervisor:

Yau Shu Wong

Student:

Partner:

Jacktek Systems Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

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