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US 2020/0284263 A1Published application
Low profile pump motor lead protector
OwnerLawrence Osborneinventor
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Abstract
A low profile pump motor lead protector with a head guard and a trailing guard, the head guard including a front section with a front end and a rear section with a rear end, the trailing guard having a pin end for insertion in a head guard socket, the lead protector for protecting a motor lead of a pump and motor assembly of a downhole production string for surfacing fluid from a reservoir such as a subterranean oil well.
Claims10
A method of protecting a pump motor lead comprising the steps of:
- mounting a pump motor lead protector alongside a pump and motor assembly for installation in a production string that will be inserted in a wellbore;
- covering the pump motor lead with the pump motor lead protector including a shoe-shaped head guard and a channel-shaped trailing guard;
- covering the pump motor lead where it extends from the motor with the head guard, the trailing guard inserted in the head guard;
- covering the pump motor lead where it extends from the head guard with the trailing guard;
- holding the head guard to the motor with a plurality of bolts;
- holding the trailing guard against at least one of the pump, motor, and production tubing with an encircling band;
- and,
- during lowering of the production string into the wellbore, the pump motor lead protector preventing rubbing of the pump motor lead against adjacent stationary surfaces.
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