Armais Arutunoff - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Jun 21, 1893 Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1892)

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About Armais Arutunoff

  • Armais Sergeevich Arutunoff (June 21, 1893 - February 1978) was an inventor of technology for oil drilling.
  • He was born in Tiflis, then part of the Russian Empire.
  • He emigrated to the United States in 1923, and moved to Oklahoma in 1928, where he started a company to build an electric submersible pump for use at the bottom of oil boreholes.
  • By 1938 it is estimated that two percent of all oil produced in the US was lifted by an Arutunoff pump.
  • He was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1974.
  • The company he started, soon renamed Reda Pump, an acronym of Russian Electrical Dynamo of Arutunoff, was acquired by Schlumberger.
  • He died in February 1978 in Bartlesville.

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