Alternative Deployment and Permanent Magnet Motors Workshop
On December 8thth, ESP-RIFTS Participants met for a virtual Technical Workshop which was scheduled to accommodate Participants in the Eastern Hemisphere. Topics discussed include:
- Permanent magnet motors;
- Alternatively deployed ESP systems;
- ESP power quality; and
- Recent ESP-RIFTS deliverables.
February 2026 Unconventionals Workshop
On February 11th, unconventional ESP operators will gather in Denver, Colorado for the next Unconventionals ESP-RIFTS Workshop. This full-day workshop will focus on operator presentations and roundtable discussions on recent ESP failure mechanisms, ongoing reliability improvement initiatives, field trials, and production optimization strategies. The latest Unconventionals ESP Run-Life Benchmarking Report will also be presented and discussed.
If your company has unconventional ESP operations and you are interested in joining these workshops, please contact C-FER.
Reliability Benchmarking
In December, C-FER assisted an ESP-RIFTS Participant compare the reliability of different vendors in their operations.
Discussions included an overview of the ESP-RIFTS reliability tools available to Participants, best practices for benchmarking, and distinguishing between correlation and causation.
If you are interested in conducting similar analysis for your company’s operations, please contact C-FER.
Recent Data Uploads
In December, C-FER received new ESP run-life data from two ESP-RIFTS Participants with operations in thermal and unconventional applications.
After C-FER has processed and qualified the data, it will be made available for analysis on the ESP-RIFTS website and the Power BI benchmarking dashboard.
Contributor
Shannon Kennedy
Senior Research Engineer
Shannon (Hill) Kennedy, is a Research Engineer at C-FER. She is the project manager for the Electric Submersible Pump Reliability Information and Failure Tracking System (ESP-RIFTS) Joint Industry Project.
