Completions

In deepwater and multizone developments, traditional hydraulic intelligent completions can limit economic optimization, due to control-line scale, installation time, and delayed interval-control valve response. Simplified intelligent completion architectures address these constraints by reducing infrastructure complexity, shortening critical‑path rig time, and allowing rapid, bidirectional zonal control without production shut‑in. 

Surface-based pressure signal analysis provides real-time insights during hydraulic fracturing, enabling operators to optimize treatment outcomes, reduce operational risks and strategically lower capital expenditures. 

Vulcan Completion Products has launched the PROBE MAGMA-SEAL casing shoe system, an HPHT well construction technology designed for high-pressure fracturing and completion operations.

All‑electric intelligent completions are increasingly popular versus hydraulic architectures in deepwater and complex multizone wells, as longer tie-backs and more challenging reservoirs become the norm. Hydraulic systems can introduce installation complexity, delay response times, and increase operational risk. All‑electric completion systems address these constraints through simplified architecture, faster actuation, and continuous digital feedback. Utilizing field data and operational experience, the measurable value of electrification, how it supports real‑time reservoir management, and its emergence as a standard for deepwater developments are examined.  

Halliburton has secured a multibillion-dollar contract from YPF to provide unconventional completions and electric fracturing services in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale play.

Weatherford has secured a multi-year integrated completions contract from TotalEnergies to support offshore operations in Denmark, expanding its North Sea well services and completions portfolio.

Anasuria Operating Company has selected MODS Connect WorkPack and MODS Connect Completions under a new 12-month contract to digitalize project execution and completions across its UK North Sea assets.

In the past two decades, the oil and gas industry has faced enormous challenges, but at the same time, these challenges present unprecedented opportunities, driven by the rapid advancement of digital technologies. Through the integration of advanced analytics, automation, cloud computing, inflow control, and cutting-edge deployment technologies, Weatherford has transformed its completions products and solutions, enhancing reliability, saving cost, and reducing risks for operators. 

As pressure control grows more complex for multistage frac completions in unconventional wells, greater operational efficiencies are necessary to accelerate first oil. An integrated surface pressure containment ecosystem that operates autonomously across multiple wells and pads is enabling previously unobtainable deliverables while improving safety and sustainability.

Aberdeenshire-based completions specialist Vulcan Completion Products (VCP) is marking a new stage in its global growth as its workforce approaches 40 employees and operations extend to nearly 50 countries.

Reactive Downhole Tools, a specialist in well completion and swellable rubber technologies, established its Middle East presence in 2015. Over the past decade, it has become the company’s largest operation, driven by R&D investment, local expertise and strong regional demand.  

Halliburton reported $5.6 billion in Q3 2025 revenue, led by North America growth and steady international results. Adjusted earnings rose to $496 million as the company emphasized cost discipline, technology leadership and shareholder returns.

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects depend on one uncompromising factor: integrity. Unlike oil and gas wells designed for decades, CCUS wells must remain sealed and secure for up to 75 years or more. This panel will explore how existing completion technologies—adapted with the right metallurgies, packers, cementing practices, and zonal isolation techniques—can deliver reliable containment under corrosive CO₂ environments. We’ll discuss what’s required to demonstrate injectivity without exceeding fracture pressures, how to optimize well design for cost and long-term reliability, and why monitoring is as critical as the initial construction. From real-time fiber optic and electronic gauge data to periodic logging and corrosion checks, effective monitoring ensures that what goes in stays in. With lessons from both subsurface design and surface execution, the session will highlight how to adapt proven oil and gas technologies to meet CCUS requirements while aligning with regulatory compliance, cost efficiency, and longevity.

Viking Completion Technology has achieved a key milestone in North Africa after delivering upper completion equipment for an onshore oil project, underscoring the company’s growing role in the region’s upstream sector.

A new Middle Eastern record was set with a 29-stage StackFRAC® system in a tight carbonate, extended-reach well. Despite severe doglegs and a 6,700-ft lateral, the system deployed flawlessly—every sleeve shifted, every stage completed. Innovation, precision and planning allowed this multistage performance. 

Baker Hughes and Cactus, a global manufacturer of pressure control equipment for oil and gas drilling, have entered a new joint venture involving Baker Hughes' surface pressure control (SPC) product line. Cactus will own 65% of the JV, while Baker Hughes will retain a 35% stake.

This article explores innovative developments in composite frac plug technology. Key advancements discussed include ball-in-place options to conserve water, ball recovery systems for quick remediation, and screen-out recovery features to address operational setbacks, with case studies illustrating significant time and cost savings for operators. 

The AMP e-ICV features the simplicity and speed of an electric ICV, with the robustness of a hydraulically actuated valve. By resolving the speed, complexity and reliability challenges of traditional systems, the AMP e-ICV provides a unified solution that is not only more efficient but also inherently more resilient. 

The SwellPlug is now a field-proven comprehensive solution to providing effective, permanent isolation of existing target intervals to allow water shutoff, re-completion and even repairing of casing integrity.   

Today, the push for completion technology that can run entirely on natural gas has reached a new peak. This shift is driven by E&P companies scrutinizing operational efficiency and climate-related objectives closer than ever. The Caterpillar® Gas Mechanical System (GMS) embodies this new approach.  

UK-based Vulcan Completion Products has partnered with Sudelac Limited under an IP license agreement to offer advanced pressure and load testing for float equipment using the patented FloatCHECKER PT system.