Sucker Rod Guides | Black Mamba Centralizer

The Black Mamba

Sucker rod stabilizer, centralizer, and guide.

Complete sucker rod protection and control is now possible – sucker rod buckling and instability during compressive moments is in the past. Leading sucker rod guides and centralizers in every metric related to tubing wear solutions, The Black Mamba is THE answer to your sucker rod and rod lift concerns.

Black Mamba Rod Lift has engineered a helical sucker rod centralizer, stabilizer and guide, providing up to 36” in direct sucker rod protection. The creative geometry and low AMOI (area-moment of inertia) allows the patent-pending sucker rod guide and profile to flex and move freely and naturally with the sucker rod when unconstrained, outside production tubing. Inside tubing, the constant 360-degree centralization inhibits axial displacement of the sucker rod body, preventing severe bending moments which cause rod parts and premature well-failures and downtime.

End-to-end rod control allows for pushing the pump, pumping the curve, and eliminating loss of down-hole plunger travel through perfect, ideal behavior and control of the rod string.

Black Mamba Rod Lift can assist in the placement and count of Black Mamba Helical Stabilizers by way of our proprietary iterative algorithms which analyze SPM, Rod Design, Deviation, and Stroke to populate maximum potential compressive loading and stresses leading to buckling; this compression analysis is much more specific than the outputs of predictive sucker rod programs and guarantees extended run times.

Keep pumping - reliably.

For Compression

For Wear

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Design Benefits

Bending Moment Mitigation A patent-protected centralizer which truly reduces fatigue cycles on the sucker rod, preventing axial deflection and excessive, unintended localized stress along the sucker rod body.

Bending Stiffness The first sucker rod centralizer and protection device that collaborates with sucker rod flex instead of inhibiting it like traditional, legacy 4-fin sucker rod guides

Erodible Wear Volume (EWV) Greater EWV than any other centralizer on the market, leading the industry in product life and sucker rod protection. Part-for-part, nothing compares.

Fluid Flow Bypass Area A single fin allows for 70% more fluid flow area than legacy product. Bye-bye fluid turbulence. Further, the singular fin and helical design provide unmatched performance Progressive Cavity pumping.

360 Degree Protection The Black Mamba sucker rod stabilizer (its more than a sucker rod guide!) circumferentially occupies the free space around the sucker rod, allowing sucker rod flexibility, but taking the space of potential movement.

Paraffin Movement With a single-fin helically surrounding the sucker rod body, paraffin continues to move up the well-bore.

CTE With properly molded thermosets, there isn't a material on Earth that bonds better to the rod at all temperatures.

Engineering Validation Testing

Black Mamba continuously invests resources in effort to understand the true behavior of sucker rods and sucker rod guides or centralizers down well. In addition to our computational investments for in-house and 3rd party CFD and FEA analysis, we have developed the Surface Well Simulator (SWS). The SWS system allows our development group to input pumping speeds, well conditions, the resulting tensile/compression loads, studying sucker rod behavior inside production tubing - applying and releasing real loads to real rods watching it in real-time.

The system supports two rods side-by-side, providing invaluable visual insight to down-hole rod behaviors. Our findings from our SWS encouraged us to build an interactive sucker rod comparator in our lobby, showcasing The Black Mamba against traditional, legacy sucker rod guides or centralizers.

We see rod slap. We see compression. We see bending moments. We see cracked and split legacy sucker rod guides. We see our solution working.

Want a study of your circumstances? Contact us. We'll plug it in, install the rods in question, and show you side-by-side the difference Black Mamba makes versus traditional sucker rod guides. Buckling and bending moments be gone!

Accountability

Tired of the run-around and ridiculous answers about failure analysis related to legacy thermoset or thermoplastic sucker rod guides?

Individual Serialization We know down to the second when our parts are manufactured, laser etching each individually for ultimate traceability, never before seen in sucker rod guide manufacturing. Serialization is sync'd with cloud-based logging of all parameters.

Master Command Center Our Command Center allows complete control of every machine in the building - and we can access it through private VPN from our phones and computers in the field or at home at any time.

Proactive Manufacturing Countless pressure transducers, 50+ thermocouples, 20+ zones of heat control, Self-Tuning PID loops. Operational lockout. Shipping sucker rod guides that look good on the outside but are porous or under-cured on the inside are a thing of the past.