Norway-based plug and abandonment firm HydraWell is targeting a technology to plug offshore wells without the support of a drilling rig. HydraWell has introduced PWC technology (perforate, wash and cement) to plug offshore wells in 2…
Well intervention spending has been hit harder than other areas, but it is not due to a lack of opportunities. Elaine Maslin reports. Island Offshore’s Island Frontier. Image from Island Offshore…
Audrey Leon chats with Schlumberger, Baker Hughes and Weatherford to learn about the latest technologies available for rigless plugging and abandonment operations. Rig-Free heavy-duty pulling and jacking unit…
Halliburton’s Ernst Schnell discusses a recent collaboration between Halliburton’s casing equipment team and a Scandinavian operator, which helped develop a rigless method for plugging a well through the Xmas tree. Rigless AbandaSystem schematic…
C6 Technologies, an oilfield technology company offering new solutions for well intervention and conveyance utilizing composite materials, is performing field trials on its new ComTrac system after extensive test well runs. C6 Technologies – a joint venture by Archer Ltd…
Oceaneering International’s acquisition of Blue Ocean Technologies is set to reap returns in terms of new technology. Elaine Maslin reports. IRIS and BORIS. Images from Oceaneering. When…
Fernando C. Hernandez, of SECC Oil & Gas, and Efrain Rodriguez, of IMP, discuss efforts to research rigless production solutions for Mexican deepwater operations. Figure 1: SECC’s connector installed on a manifold…
Saudi Aramco and Baker Hughes (BHI) have completed the first installation of the TransCoil rigless-deployed electrical submersible pumping (ESP) system, which is designed to help operators bring wells on production faster and lower the costs associated with installing and replacing ESPs…
Qinterra Technologies has been awarded a three-year wireline tractor and instrumented intervention services contract with a deepwater oil and gas operator in the US Gulf of Mexico, effective immediately. The scope of the contract includes tractor conveyance…
The European Intervention and Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA), is delighted to announce that this year's recipient of the ICoTA Innovation Award was a joint entry from Shell, Helix Well Ops and Altus Intervention. The award, presented at the annual SPE ICoTA Well Intervention Conference…
North Sea intervention firm Altus Intervention has won a fixed term, five-year contract to provide well intervention services for Maersk Oil UK. Altus Intervention was awarded the contract for the provision of slickline services, coiled tubing services…
Aker BP (formerly Det norske and BP Norway) has awarded Altus Intervention an up to nine-year frame agreement contract for well intervention services. Services, starting mid-December, included consist of casedhole wireline, slickline…
Aberdeen-based Helix Well Ops (UK) Ltd. completed the industry’s first riser-based coiled tubing intervention project from a mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) class light well intervention vessel (LWIV). The Well Enhancer…
Oceaneering’s Justin Pizzitola discusses the use of an open water dual coiled riser based system for rigless stimulation. Back deck of an Oceaneering vessel. Images from Oceaneering International…
In advance of OE’s 2016 Deepwater Intervention Forum, held in Galveston, Texas, Audrey Leon discusses the next game-changing technologies with the forum’s board members. The Helix Well Enhancer…
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