April 2015

Hands-on model of sucker rod pumping facility for oil well production

Often students of the petroleum engineering programs at the early stage of their studies in institutions of developing countries do not have easy access to the oil and gas industry facilities. Multinational petroleum companies come in with the state-of-the-arts technology, with expatriates who work and leave without technology transfer. Laboratory equipment is very costly to developing institutions of petroleum studies...

Author(s): Kennedy Folepai FOZAO, Michel LISSOUCK, Frederic LONTSI, Abbas NGASA and Njoke MBANDA