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Safety is at the heart of everything we do. At Apex we go beyond pure equipment design, the safety factors or minimum industry requirements. Our focus safe operation from installation, to production, to routine maintenance. 

Apex Units come standard with not so typical safety implementations,

• Standard with multi-jack-bolt tensioners on wristy pins.
• Engineered lifting locations.
• SafTilt^TM - Eliminates the need to remove horsehead for servicing, patented.
• Crankloc^TM - An Industry first that addresses safe LOTO without ever placing any individual in the path of fire, patented. 

Apex design philosophies consider safety through out the entire process, as well as reliability and overall productivity.

All Apex Pumping Units are designed to exceed API 11e for both,

• Power Transmission
• Structural Elements
• Use of vibration resistant fastening systems in critical areas.
• Largest Pumping Unit ever built, in the world.

Apex material selections are superior,

• Fabricated Structure exceeds mechanical properties of ASTM A36 steels. 
• Rotating power transmission elements are produced from proprietary steel blends that far exceed the competition. 

Apex Manufacturing,

• Use of vacuum casting processes to reduce foundry defects through out .
• Near Net Forgings, where it matters most. 
• Manufacturing processes that yield gear quality ratings higher than any of the competition.
• In house heat treating and full metallurgical control systems. 

These are just a few of the things at Apex we do better than anyone else.

Very rarely will you find a engineered piece of equipment that has lubricants themselves as a primary element of consideration or design factor. At Apex we're focused on our commitment to engineering excellence. Apex has partnered with Schaeffer's Oil Company to integrate lubricant and lubrication engineering into the design cycles for our equipment.  What does this mean?

• More reliability, and reduced operating cost related to break downs. 
• Less oil changes and greasing. 
• Lower electrical consumption.
• Greater protection during overload events. 
• Apex Endurance units that can operate at less than 1spm. 

Apex Endurance series units can be used during the high yield life span of the well, displacing ESP's earlier within the life of the well.

On the other hand you may as well just start off with an Endurance, in some applications these units can out produce ESP's right from the start.