Inventing the Electric Submersible Pump
Today’s petroleum industry owes a lot to Armais Sergeevich Arutunoff. With the help of a prominent Oklahoma oil company president, he built the first practical electric submersible pumps (ESPs) – and revolutionized production from America’s oilfields. A 1936 Tulsa World article described his downhole pump as “An electric motor with the proportions of a slim…
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