Danny Wilson
Analyst · Roth Capital. Please proceed.
You bet, John. No, that's a great question. And that's why it takes a little longer to ramp-up than some think you can do -- you would think you could just go out and turn on a switch and everything just comes right back to normal. Again, the rod pumps, those are very easy just to turn on. They'll come on with no issues and go right back to full capacity, a 100% of production. In fact, we've seen that just in the last week, when we started up our wells. We started out by turning on the rod pumps, because they were the easiest. And I mean our production popped right back up. In fact, it exceeded what we thought we were going to do. So, I think, we're getting a little bit of flush there. But the ESPs are a little bit different. Obviously, they're down hole. And you can't just say -- I'm going to get a little bit technical here. But we adjust the speed of the pumps by adjusting the electric current going down to them in hertz. And so, let's say, we start out a well and the manufacturer will recommend a starting speed and maybe that's 55 hertz, just as a generic number. And then, over time what we'll do is, we'll monitor the fluid level. We'll see what's happening. Assuming that the well is still maintaining good fluid levels, maybe every day, again, the manufacturer will recommend. And you don't go ramping too quickly, but we can run-up maybe another one or two hertz, we'll monitor the fluid level, if it's still in good shape, then we'll go up another one or two hertz. So that -- and that's why I'm saying, you have to kind of ramp into those, because you don't want to turn it on full speed pull all your production down. And then all of a sudden you've got a pump that's not moving the right amount of fluid. You've got gas interference now coming through. And that's what ruins those pumps. I will say ESPs do not like to be turned on and off. They like to be run at a very constant speed all the time, but we feel like with our -- with the procedure that we have in place is starting slow, pickling -- and the big part of this too is pickling the wells, as we shut them down. So we're loading them with corrosion inhibitor. We're loading them with paraffin inhibitors, we're using scale inhibitors. So that as they're shut down, we don't have a bunch of -- well, it's basically crap.