Offshore Oil & Ocean Engineering
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December 2010 Issue
Superior Completion Services Finishes First MST Installation
The Superior Completion Services division of Superior Energy Services (New Orleans, Louisiana) recently completed its first multizone single trip (MST) installation, the company announced in mid-November.
The installation was performed in the Gulf of Mexico on a dual producer completion project. The well completion program involved four different intervals with an isolation packer assembly in a larger casing size. This assembly made for the most intervals and the longest MST assembly installed in seven-inch casing to date, Superior said. It also made for the first system to use a tapered service string for 9 5/8-inch and seven-inch casing.
The perforating and sand control operations on the four zones were completed in about four days, half the time it would have taken using typical stacked completion techniques, Superior said. Sand control treatments were pumped on the four completion intervals in 27 hours. In addition, the MST system allows each zone to be tested individually. The well will produce the lower two zones as the long string and the upper two zones as the short string of a dual completion.
"The results of this project are encouraging for the new completion services division," said Ed Smith, vice president of Superior Completion Services. "Our plan for this division is to expand these product and service offerings across Superior's growing international footprint."
For more information, visit www.superiorenergy.com.
Brinker Wins Industry Award for Best Well-Intervention Solution
Brinker Technology Ltd. (Aberdeen, Scotland) recently announced that it won the accolade for best well-intervention solution at the ninth annual World Oil awards. The finalists were announced in mid-October.
Brinker won the accolade for its patented Platelet Barrier TechnologyTM, which deploys free-floating discreet particles called Platelets® into a flowing system. The Platelets are specifically engineered for the size of the leak and the operating conditions of the system. Suspended within an engineered fluid, they are pumped downhole, through the wellhead, down the annulus and on reaching the leak, pressure-differential forces entrain them into the defect, creating a permanent mechanical seal passing full well-integrity testing and certification.
Brinker said that because Platelets are carried in a briefcase, they can be deployed anywhere in the world.
"This award is a huge achievement for Brinker, and we are delighted that the industry is recognizing the potential in our technology," Brinker chief executive Kevin Stewart said. "With demand for oil increasing exponentially on a daily basis, to be able to meet this we have to look at the reserves available in existing or shut-in wells. This is where Brinker is completely rewriting the rules regarding the time it takes to find and fix leaks and previous assumptions about the viability of shut-in wells. We are now enabling our customers to implement field-wide integrity programs by bringing multiple wells back online, in many cases, in just hours, which is unprecedented.
"Our technology unlocks trapped production in a field and maintains productivity. What's more, we have deployed our technology on over 40 separate occasions fixing wellheads, casing, tubing and connection leaks over the last 12 months, achieving a 100 percent success rate."
For more information, visit www.brinker-technology.com.
ELI Database Tracks Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Litigation
The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) announced in November that it has launched a new online tool to help users access information related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, available at www.eli.org
Central to the site is a litigation database, ELI said, which tracks the ongoing legal action triggered by the spill. The database allows users to see the types of cases filed, when and where the parties filed, and which cases have been closed or consolidated. Users may also investigate spill-related cases according to a variety of search fields.
In addition to the litigation database, links provide basic information about the oil spill, its effects and efforts to help the region recover.
Knight Introduces Megaton Drilling Jar, Opens Facility
Knight Oil Tools (Lafayette, Louisiana) announced in late-October that it has introduced the Megaton Drilling Jar product line and has opened a MegatonTM Jar Facility in Broussard, Louisiana.
The new product line features the Megaton Drilling Jar with Ulti-Torq connection and the Megaton Energizer. The products are designed to help free stuck drill pipe by providing an impact or "jarring" effect upward or downward on stuck pipe. Incorporating features of both hydraulic and mechanical drilling jars, the design combines both hydraulic time-delay release and a mechanical lock mechanism in one double-acting jar, the company said.
The new 12,000-square-foot jar maintenance facility provides service and maintenance operations for the product line.
For more information, visit www.knightoiltools.com.
Kuwait Oil Co. Joins Global Technology Funding Program ITF
Nonprofit oil and gas technology funding organization ITF announced in November that Ahmadi, Kuwait-based Kuwait Oil Co. (KOC) has joined as a new member.
"This is an important signing for us, and we look forward to further developing new technologies that will play an important role in locating and extracting reserves from the Middle East region," said Neil Poxon, managing director of ITF. "We have already successfully launched more than 150 joint industry projects, providing creative solutions to some of the major challenges that the sector faces."
"Our attraction to the ITF model is underpinned by the real results we are seeing in oilfields across the globe from technology that has been delivered through projects jointly funded by ITF members," said Dr. Adel Al-Abassi, KOC manager of research and technology.
For more information, visit www.oil-itf.com.
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