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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2000
Ed Matthews, Kitscoty, CA;
Gary Anderson, Calgary, CA;
Shawn Deugo, Calgary, CA;
Jim Anaka, Lashburn, CA;
Mel Paton, Pierceland, CA;
Innovative Production Technologies Ltd., Edmonton, CA;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for pumping fluids in a wellbore. The apparatus includes a pipe string in the wellbore extending between a wellhead end and a production end, the pipe string defining an interior fluid path. A swivel device is connected into the pipe string so that an upper portion of the pipe string rotates relative to a lower portion thereof. A lower connector connects the lower portion with a stator of a rotary pump such that a fluid pumped by the pump is conducted through the interior fluid path of the pipe string. An upper connector connects the upper portion with a rotor of the rotary pump such that rotation of the upper portion rotates the rotor and thus pumps the fluid. The method includes rotatably supporting the upper portion in the wellbore at the wellhead end, connecting the lower portion with the stator, connecting the upper portion with the rotor, positioning the pump in the wellbore and rotating the upper portion in order to rotate the rotor to pump the fluid.