ESP design & surveillance
Nodal ESP design that runs in a browser — with run-in bending checks against your own directional survey, a gas-lift comparison, and an inverse solver that back-solves wear and gas interference from the amps you're already reading off the drive.
Nothing to install · Works on any machine with a browser
What it does
Sizing is the easy half. The pump still has to survive going in the hole, it still has to be the right lift method for the well, and one day it will stop making rate and somebody will have to work out why. ESP Studio covers all four.
Full nodal solve — composite Vogel inflow, per-section gas handling, drift-flux tubing hydraulics. Point it at a well and it will design the string for you, then show you the alternatives it rejected and why.
The same well, four ways. 3 % of the rate buys 5 points of efficiency.
Paste your directional survey and ESP Studio works out the bending stress at every housing neck in the string — both as it lands and at the worst dogleg it passes through on the way down. Those are different limits, and the run-in one is usually what bites.
It'll tell you the deepest depth the string can actually be set, which intervals to run in slow, and how much the tubing will stretch when you tally it.
Run-in and landed limits are different numbers — checked neck by neck.
Type in what the well is actually doing — rate, amps, the swing on the amps, a discharge gauge if you have one — and ESP Studio solves backwards for the condition that explains it: how much head the pump has lost, how much extra horsepower it's pulling, and how much gas is getting past the separator.
You get a diagnosis you can act on rather than a shrug, and you can push it straight back into the model as your new working baseline.
The amp swing is what separates gas interference from mechanical wear.
Screen the same well against conventional gas lift and high-pressure gas lift, side by side with the ESP. You get performance curves for both, the injection depth and pressure each one needs, compressor sizing, and a lift cost per barrel for all three.
Sometimes the answer is that the ESP isn't the right call. Better to find that out here.
Both start on natural flow. Only HPGL clears the ESP on this well.
Your equipment
Built-in catalogues go stale, and the curves in them rarely match the datasheet in your hand. So ESP Studio lets you bring your own: trace a pump curve off a datasheet with the digitizer, or type the coefficients in, and it becomes a pump you can design against like any other.
Click along the printed curve; the fit lands on your points, not near them.
The physics
Lift software tends to be a black box, which is a problem when you're the one signing off on the design. ESP Studio is built on published, citable work — Vogel and Standing for inflow and fluid properties, Hagedorn-style two-phase traverses with drift-flux slip, Turpin and the more recent TUALP work for gas degradation, GPSA for compressor sizing, API 610 for the operating range.
Where a model is a simplification, it says so. Where a number is an assumption you can change, it's an input rather than a constant buried in the code.
Get started
No install, no licence server, no procurement. Work a well in the browser and see whether the numbers look like your field.