Tad Bostick (Left), Western Hemisphere commercial director, receiving ICOTA's Intervention Technology award
Downhole technology specialist, Well-SENSE, has been awarded the
prestigious Intervention Technology Award from the Intervention and Coiled
Tubing Association (ICoTA) for its pioneering FiberLine Intervention (FLI)
Technology.
This highly sought after accolade recognises outstanding technical
innovation or application of well intervention technology which reduces risk,
increases production, improves safety and minimises environmental impact.
The Aberdeen based company was also awarded the ICoTA Europe
Innovation Award in November 2017.
Receiving the award, Tad Bostick, Well-SENSE Inc. Western Hemisphere commercial director, said: “We’re
absolutely delighted to receive the prestigious Intervention Technology Award
from ICoTA, who have once again recognised the value our FLI technology can
deliver to the industry.
“FLI is an entirely new approach to well intervention for the
purpose of data capture and well profiling. It significantly reduces the cost
and risks associated with traditional wireline logging. It can gather field wide or single well distributed
data over time and depth simultaneously, for a greater understanding of the
well and reservoir environment.
“In contrast to traditional
intervention methods such as wireline, slick line and coil tubing which require
large amounts of surface equipment and personnel, the FLI system is unique in
that it uses a compact and disposable fiber optic probe and lays bare line into
the well which does not need to be recovered. ‘Rigging up’, data capture and ‘rigging
down’ is usually completed within a couple of hours, with the probe and fibre
optic dropped downhole to quickly dissolve in the well environment.”
This innovative and disruptive
technology is delivering significant cost savings by avoiding the
non-productive downtime usually associated with intervention operations, but
more importantly has a dramatic effect in helping to address integrity
challenges and ultimately increase production.
Active-FLI components include HD cameras for real-time video streaming
and tractor driven conveyancing to access horizontal or highly deviated wells.