PM motors generate significant voltage up the cable when the motor shaft is rotated by hydraulic action. This exposes personnel to serious dangers when working on exposed cables and switchgear during workovers and maintenance. Tragically, field personnel handling PM motors on site have suffered severe electric shock and even death.

Until now, the most common mitigation method for electric shock risks is shorting out the cable at the surface – leading to many vulnerable risks during installation and pulling. The ABS MagneGuard automatically provides a reliable and efficient elimination of all risk, without the need for manual interventions or special procedures.

SandGuard is a unique multi-lift solution from FET that makes it possible to eliminate potential factors that lead to ESP failures.

SandGuard is a revolutionary technology that captures and quarantines fallback sand to keep pump restarts trouble-free. Proven through thousands of installations, SandGuard has demonstrated enormous increases in ESP run times in sandy wells.

SandGuard supports multiple applications such as ESP installations, horizontal or deviated oil wells, and offshore or onshore wells.

Benefits of Using SandGuard

• • Improves ESP life up to 1,200 percent
  • Protects pumps from sand fallback via continuous auto-flush feature
  • Captures all sand and debris falling onto pumps after shutdown, creating a clean start every time
  • Provides ESPs with softer starts that significantly improve pump life
  • Eliminates communication with the annulus, resulting in zero risk of failure or fluid recirculation
  • Offers compatibility with all ESP-produced flow rates
  • Withstands the harshest downhole environments
  • Offers standard or custom connections to production tubing

Essential Features of Using SandGuard

When it comes to Forum Energy Technologies’ sand management system, it is hard to top SandGuard. It is a perfect solution to capture the fallback of solids and sand and then separate it from the pump.

Due to its flushable design, our clients continue to commend its cleanable features that pave the way for repeated use. You can use SandGuard for multiple configurations and ensure get a fitting for a specific casing size. And despite the size, you can count on the effectiveness of SandGuard.

What Makes SandGuard So Unique

SandGuard captures the essence of the Forum Multilift sand management system and offers advanced sand control. SandGuard is a revolutionary piece of technology that quarantines and captures fallback sand to ensure the pump restarts without any issues.

After thousands of installations, it has become clear that SandGuard can significantly speed up run times for sand wells. Unlike other similar products in the market, the installation of SandGuard is simple and comes down to the pump discharge.

Cyclone ESP leverages proven vortex technology as part of a superior sand protection system. Applicable to onshore, offshore, deviated or horizontal wells, it prevents sand damage, extends pump run life and dramatically lowers lease operating expenses.

With one size for all flow rates, Cyclone easily retrofits to any ESP well. Because it rests directly below the pump, installation requires no downhole preparation. The high-efficiency centrifugal action separates a wider range of grain size than sand screens, sending de-sanded fluid to the pump and solids to a tailpipe below. With special metallurgical construction and no moving parts, Cyclone’s vortex technology avoids the erosion and plugging issues of traditional sand screens to provide exceptional sand control.

Features and Benefits

• Protects ESPs from sand damage.
• Extends run life to dramatically lower lease operating expenses.
• Minimizes or eliminates costly workovers, ESP replacements and lost production.
• Installs easily, featuring high reusability and one-size-fits-all casing weights.
• Allows field change of rubber elements.
• Enables quick change and rerun without leaving rig floor.
• Eliminates need to rotate motor or tailpipe.

Harsh downhole environments pose never-ending threats to electric submersible pumps (ESPs) and completions reducing run-life and requiring costly replacements. One of the best strategies to prevent damage is an ESP encapsulation system – also known as a POD or CAN system – that encloses pumps into protective environments. These sealed pods allow fluids to be conveyed through the POD system providing a barrier against harmful well fluids.

Forum’s custom-engineered ESP POD systems encapsulate, isolate and support pump systems and can produce multiple zones independently or dual ESP configurations. In fact, we were the first in the industry to successfully produce and install a dual-tandem ESP POD encapsulation system in 2015. Easily installed, inspected and tested, these hardy systems isolate casing from over-pressure and corrosion, preventing damage and avoiding production loss.

Forum’s ESP POD systems are part of our extensive Multilift artificial lift solutions catalog.

Benefits

• Increases production by enabling the use of ESPs in series and reducing the HP requirement by ESP.
• Isolates casing from over-pressure or corrosion.
• Protects ESP and avoids production loss from casing damage.
• Enables the use of hydraulic-commanded tools for drillstring testing.

Features

• Easy field assembly/disassembly, inspection and testing
• Available in various metallurgies, sizes and connections

Applications

• Highly deviated, vertical or horizontal wells
• Well testing
• Dual ESP systems
• Corrosive fluids production
• Onshore and offshore wells
• Subsea or deepwater production