Bethelem Steel, once the largest steel maker in the world, produced this book.  The "Sucker Rod Handbook" primairly deals with sucker rod as used under mechanical pumps  when pumping oil from oil wells.  Often times these wells are very deep and a continous sucker rod string is used to connect the mechanical pumping unit "pumping jack" to the piston and cylinder in the bottom of the well.  The sucker string develops a 'Travelling Wave or Standing Wave' as it goes up and down.  This book explains how to minimumize the standing wave and improve production.  In very deep wells, it is sometimes possible NOT to get any oil to the surface if the wave is too severe as the mechanical motion induced by the pumping jack never reaches the pump piston and so the entire power stroke is absorbed by the wave in the up pipe.  The charts and graphs in this text explain how different strings of sucker rod behave and how to "tune" the string for maximum pumping effeciency.  Very hard to find information regarding pumping from very deep holes with a mechanical pump.  My own personal experiance deals with deep well solar pumping and because the solar pumps run faster than oilfield pumps even a well of 1,000 feet of depth is strongly affected by standing wave in the sucker string.

This book is offered as a PDF file on CD-ROM.  You can load to your computer or tablet, read or print any or all pages and have it ready when planning a pump installation.

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