Baker Hughes Corporation

Stephen T Shanahan

Steven Keith Tetzlaff

David B Dillon

A well pump assembly has a pressure relief valve in the tubing string for avoiding excessive discharge pressure on a progressing cavity pump. The pressure relief valve is mounted in the string of tubing downstream of the pump. The valve assembly has a main flow passage through it for fluid being pumped by the pump through the tubing. The valve assembly has a valve seat and a spring-biased valve element which is urged by the spring against the downstream end of the valve seat to maintain the valve seat closed. The upstream end of the valve seat is in communication with the pressure in the tubing. If the tubing pressure exceeds a selected level, the valve element moves to an open position, discharging well fluid into the casing.

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Whittier, CA, United States of America

Stephen T Shanahan