Smart Pumper Offers Real-Time Production Automation, Monitoring

What Does The Smart Pumper Do?

The Smart Pumper is a master controller for any operator’s variable frequency device (VFD), controlling the speed at which a well is pumped based on real-time fluid data in the well. The Smart Pumper varies the pump speed to reach and maintain the well’s production target. It can also regulate hydraulic motors and valves.

By answering a few questions, such as the desired production level and how many days an operator wants to achieve its production target, The Smart Pumper then creates a fluid-level reference curve for that production goal, and will vary the pump speed to reach this goal and to maintain that production level.

The Smart Pumper accomplishes this by regulating electric motor speed regardless of horsepower (hp). The Smart Pumper automation package plugs directly into a customers’ 460/230V power supply and then to the motor associated with the artificial lift device that it controls and monitors. In cases when a monitoring facility has no power, solar panels can also be used to provide 24V to the Smart Pumper and sensors. Battery backup is an option which enables the Smart Pumper to continue to log data and communicate with the customer that they have a power failure at the site, Boyles said.

Operators can remotely monitor wells via Smart Pumper by logging into The Smart Pumper’s open access, password-protected website from any mobile device they already own, including cell phones, iPads or laptop. They can then set the well’s production target remotely, and monitor multiple wells in different parts of the world using the same interface.

“They can set the production target, name sensors, scale, set ranges, warnings and alarms from their dining room table, if they want, or from anywhere in the world where the 4G network is supported,” Boyles noted, adding the changes to the pump’s speed can be made in less than nine seconds, the same amount of time as the average response made over a 4G wireless network.  


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