New Products and Services

RFID cementing port collar facilitates efficient cement placement

Weatherford has developed a radio-frequency identification (RFID) cementing port collar that allows efficient cement placement, to help operators achieve a competent annular barrier in mature fields and narrow pressure-window environments. Conventional stage-cementing tools typically impart some amount of pressure surge, which potentially can compromise formation integrity and the ensuing cement job. However, the RFID-enabled collar is an interventionless fluid-management device that will not induce a pressure surge to the formation upon opening. It is pre-programmed off the critical path to client-specific applications, thus reducing NPT. To open, a frequency-modulated pressure signature is applied down the casing or liner to the port collar after a shutoff plug lands in a float collar. The sleeve opens after a predetermined delay. Following cement placement, a closing plug is deployed to close and lock the sleeve. The port collar provides an ISO 14998 V0-rated barrier, and is compatible within hydraulic and mechanical liner installations, conventional casing, and drilling-with-casing or drilling-with-liner systems. Photo: Weatherford. 

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Software enables real-time drilling monitoring 

Proactive Real Time Systems (PRTS) has launched its new software product called the Real Time Advisory System (RTAS). The system has been under development for more than a year and is designed to offer an improved and scalable solution for utilization of wellsite information from any source involved in measuring and monitoring wellsite information transfer standard markup language (WITSML) operations. In addition to state-of-the-art IT architecture and security, The software offers a unique physics-based analysis of well conditions. This analysis results in timely predictive watches that avoid the common problem of many existing real-time systems—notification after an undesired event occurs, often too late to mount an effective response. Historically teams have had to struggle with gathering, analyzing, and using WITSML data in an effective way. The system was designed to solve the problems that teams have encountered, with previous real-time IT systems.

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Service increases on-bottom drilling

The xBolt accelerated drilling service increases on-bottom drilling time by eliminating surveying time and costly out-of-hole trips. The new MWD service incorporates a configurable telemetry system into a single tool—either ultra-fast electromagnetic (EM) or robust mud pulse (MP), or both, with the dual-telemetry option. The multi-telemetry service can switch telemetry modes in less than 1 min., thus eliminating trips. Survey time can be reduced up to four times when MP telemetry is deployed, while the EM configuration can result in zero surveying time. The service also provides a high-density azimuthal gamma ray functionality that provides a cost-effective solution without holding back the ROP. In the MidCon basin, a customer used the service to drill a total 74,793 ft in eight wells. By performing directional surveys during drill pipe connections, the service’s EM telemetry improved the customer’s drilling performance—resulting in 4.5 min. saved per connection, for a total of 53 hr saved. 

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Gas detector provides flexibility for monitoring 

Conspec Controls has released the Optio XP, a multi-head, wired gas detector, which simplifies installation, calibration and maintenance. Its features provide flexibility for monitoring and detection in indoor and outdoor applications. The detector’s IR/MIR sensor technology incorporates moisture protection and compensation that recognize humidity changes and prevent false positives that can trigger unnecessary equipment shutdowns. It may be used as a single-point detector with an integral sensor, or configured with, and utilize up to, six remote sensors.

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Improved routing system optimizes fluid transfer

National Oilwell Varco (NOV) has introduced the newly improved DORS fluid routing system to its line of drilling fluid equipment software. The system optimizes fluid transfer to assist rig personnel in planning and executing bulk and drilling fluid operational processes. The system prevents incorrect routing and avoids interferences between ongoing operations, leveraging material and process knowledge to reduce the risk of costly cross-contamination. Operations can be monitored and controlled easily through a simple, intuitive user interface. In the event of an equipment failure, the system finds an alternate route for operation.

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Containment membrane designed for tank battery installations

A durable new containment membrane designed specifically for tank battery installations has been introduced by Garland Energy Systems, a division of Postle Industries, Inc. The membrane, named Fusion 50 Tank Battery, provides a consistent and durable 50-mil thickness of PVC waterproofing, which can be installed in any range of temperature and humidity conditions in oil fields. The company manufactures the membrane in its own production facility, to control the thickness and quality for every installation. The heavy reinforcement layer, bonded to the bottom side, offers a barrier to potential penetrations from below the containment surface. Photo: Garland Energy Systems, Inc.

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Retrievable ESP packers provide liquid-tight protection

Baker Hughes, a GE company, (BHGE) recently introduced the new Octopus portfolio retrievable ESP packers, available in a broad range of sizes and configuration options, spanning basic to complex. With V3-qualified seal elements and streamlined designs that reduce hang-up risks, these packers provide liquid-tight protection and trouble-free run-in and retrieval. The multi-string ESP packer has a wide cross-section to accommodate a multitude of configurations. The slimhole packer—the industry’s first concentric ESP packer built for slim ID casing and liners—expands ESP deployment options to some of the most challenging well depths and geometries. In a recent job in the Middle East, the slimhole packer saved an operator an estimated six days of rig time and $800,000 in equipment and workover costs. The packer’s slim design and concentric through-bore allowed it to be installed reliably in a deep, deviated section of a 5-in. production liner, effectively isolating the damaged casing above, and eliminating remediation needs. Photo: BHGE.

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