“[The new CFD study highlights] multiple benefits of running the TechTAC Slimline anchor,” said Bruce Friesen, former global artificial lift advisor for BP. “Number one, reduce pressure and temperature drop, reduce turbidity and turbulence, which all four of those things contribute and cause the formation of scale, iron sulfide, paraffin and solids. [Eliminate] all those parameters … then you don’t have plugging. You don’t have stuck anchors. You don’t have workovers. You don’t have fishing jobs. And you also don’t have what is one of the biggest issues and problems and headaches in the oil patch is gas locking of your rod pump.”
That’s one of the key takeaways for Bruce Friesen from his review of a new computational fluid dynamics (CFD) report. The study compares the performance of two different types of tubing anchors: TechTAC’s Slimline® TAC and a standard B2-style anchor.
Watch Bruce break down the rest of the results of the new CFD study in this quick 3-minute video:
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The study was conducted by the independent engineering firm Imaginationeering. It provides a comparison CFD analysis of the fluid flow around two types of 5.5” tubing anchor catchers (TACs). The anchors are measured to assess the differences between them across several flow parameters.
To receive a complementary copy of the CFD report, visit the report download page.
