The performance of deep-well jet pumps can be optimized to specific pumping conditions through the use of control valves to create the right amount of back pressure, and this article – part two of our jet pump series – will explain their function and how to adjust them.
Years ago, when I started in the drilling business, training of new hands was almost non-existent. Drillers expected new hands to know what to do and how to do it without any instruction – almost as if they were supposed to be born with the knowledge of how to make the tongs bite or slip the drill line.
There is an underlying message in my article this month. You cannot turn on the radio or television without hearing about the drilling industry these days. It does not matter that it’s offshore oil drilling – for Joe Public, it is drilling.
“What
is a jet pump, and how does it differ from a centrifugal pump? A jet pump
actually is two pumps in one – a centrifugal pump and a jet assembly, commonly
called an injector.”
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