Crude Oil Transfer Pump

Crude oil transfer involves specific pumping installations to be in place for carrying and distributing the oil. The reservoirs that contain natural gases, water, or oil don’t possess substantial pressure to push the content to the surface. That’s why they need an external agent to pull them up.

You can’t think of the simple suction pumps to pull the fluids up on the surface as they reside thousands of meters under the ground. It is of great importance to crude oil producers to apply some artificial lifting force for this purpose.

How Does the Surface of the Pump Look Like?
The visible parts of the pump come in varying sizes that are tailored to meet its requirements. The reservoir is usually deeper if the pump-jack is larger. A beam or long bar heads the A-shaped frame of an oil transfer pump. The beam gets back and forth when the linkage starts operating with the help of a turning motor.

There is a metal triangle that touches the beam at the other end by way of a pipe. The pump operates and gets the horse-head of the triangle moving up and down causing the pump to work.

The Pump has a Few Down-hole Parts
The parts of the pump-jack that contribute to pumping are not within the sight. The horse head of the pump-jack is connected to the reservoir deeper inside the well by way of some hollow pipes known as the sucker rods. The ball valves of the crude oil transportation pump are sealed with a couple of plain chambers that constitute the hidden portion of the sucker rod system.

Once the rod system moves down, a valve on the plunger that holds on to the sucker rod string gets opened. The plunger is thus filled up with oil, which pushes the fluid inside the pipeline to move up. The fluids are held in place when the ball valve shuts after the plunger touches the bottom of the back-and-forth movement.

When the plunger rises, it opens the ball that lies beneath the well and holds on the static valve. It enables oil to accumulate over the standing valve. A pool of oil gets trapped again when the second ball valve shuts after the plunger falls back again. The oil makes its way through the plunger and edge past the string of the sucker rod until it reaches the surface. This is how the crude oil transfer pump works.