Final commissioning of Expro’s ground-breaking AX-S well intervention system took place recently onboard the Havila Phoenix on a subsea well in Norway’s Onarheimsfjorden. Preparations are now under way for the system’s first commercial well intervention job in the North Sea.
AX-S managing director Dave Shand commented: ‘After more than seven years of development and innovation and $200 million investment in technology, it is testament to the hard work of our AX-S team and the backing of Expro that the AX-S system is now ready for business.’ Describing the final commissioning as ‘an epic milestone’, Shand said the system would ‘significantly change how operators approach well intervention globally’.
More than 40 potential customers attended the commissioning and witnessed the demonstrations in the Norwegian fjord, which are reported to have been carried out safely without any incidents. All the subsea packages were fully deployed twice in a complete stack-up and 34 tools runs were performed on the well deploying a variety of downhole equipment including calipers, production logging, CCL, gamma ray, deep set plug, crown plugs and wireline tractor.