UNSPSC 71161101: Oilfield artificial lift services

Evaluation and design of system to add energy to the fluid column in a wellbore with the objective of initiating and improving production from the well.

UNSPSC 71161101 Oilfield artificial lift services, a Commodity code, shows minimal alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes equipment and services for extracting petroleum from subsurface wells, but the available recent opportunities do not match this scope. Instead, the opportunities tagged under this code involve landfill gas collection systems, irrigation system installation, digester gas utilization, and municipal executive search services — none of which fall within oilfield artificial lift. The mismatch suggests either systematic miscoding in the source data or that this code has been applied to unrelated categories by individual issuing bodies.

The three opportunities with material scope detail are issued by special-purpose districts and municipal authorities: the Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority (Georgia), the Eastern Municipal Water District (Riverside County, California), and the City of DeBary (Florida), with a fourth from the City of College Park (Georgia) covering executive recruitment. The Dalton-Whitfield ITB, due May 21, 2026, procures landfill gas extraction well installation and perforated collector piping with liquidated damages of $2,000–$5,000 per day; the Eastern Municipal Water District RFP, due April 13, 2026, seeks a 15–20 year Design-Build-Finance-Own-Operate-Maintain digester gas conversion project at three regional water reclamation facilities with estimated bonding of up to $24 million. The geographic scatter across Georgia, California, and Florida and the absence of a clear commodity thread through recent postings suggest this code does not capture a cohesive procurement market at the state and local level.