an ell shaped pipe 38 with one end of the ell disposed within the respective inlet port 36 and its other end 40 turned upwardly and disposed substantially concentric with the longitudinal axis of the tube obviously a portion of the pipe end 40 may be flared not shown to increase suction at its other end the depending end portion of the tubing string 26 is provided with a conventional pump hold down shoe 42 releasably engaging a pump hold down 44 threadedly connected with the upper end portion 30 of the tube 24 a conventional packer 46 surrounds the tube depending end portion 32 between the uppermost one of the perforations 34 and the depending limit of the reduced portion 28 the packer is preferably 34 set 34 to seal with the inner wall surface of the casing 20 at a point below the oil producing sand 16 obviously another packer not shown may be used to form a seal between the tubing string 26 and the inner wall surface of the casing at a selected position above the pump hold down in operation the pump not shown contained by the tubing string 26 draws salt water and or oil from the formation 18 which when flowing upwardly through the tube reduced diameter portion 28 and entering the larger end portion 30 of the tube 24 reduces the pressure in the annulus between the reduced diameter portion 28 and the inner wall surface of the casing adjacent the oil producing sand 16 to.