Omega Completion Technology is today launching a new retrievable bridge plug ideal for vital well maintenance operations following a successful campaign with a major Middle East operator.
The Aberdeen headquartered company, which also has workshop facilities in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, is exhibiting at ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi on stand 3CN14.
The Gemini Retrievable Bridge Plug (Gemini Plug) is a high performance monobore plugging solution which can be set at any required depth in the tubing or casing. Deployment is achieved in one run as well as the subsequent equalisation and retrieval of the plug, greatly reducing intervention risk and operational costs.
In a recent campaign, five Gemini Plugs were installed in a Middle East well for over a month while the operator conducted top-hole workover operations. The client used the tools deep set at 4,445 ft below the drilling rotary table and shallow set at 160ft below. The hydrostatic setting tool, which is highly debris tolerant, serviced the isolation requirements at downhole pressures of up to 5,000 pressure per square inch (psi) and temperatures of up to 125 degrees Celsius.
John Donachie, Omega's managing director, said: "The Gemini Plug has been developed in direct response to the growing need to suspend wells during regular maintenance and for zonal isolation and water shut off. The feedback following our recent successful Middle East campaign gives us great confidence in launching this tool at ADIPEC. Omega offers rapid well side response, meaning the tool can be easily retrieved, equalised and set for another operation."
Equalisation is gained via jarring upwards on the plug's fishing neck and no specialised pulling tool, probe or prong is required. Reliability in retrieving the plug is provided via the plug's robust ratchet mechanism, combined with the element being positioned above the slips. The 'through bore' design ensures full equalisation occurs prior to retrieval.
This also means that secondary devices can be installed onto the lower section of the Gemini Plug such as Omega's remotely equalised Cobalt Valves, 'Pressure Activated Equalising Valves (PA-EV), or Water Injection Valves.
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INTERVIEWS AVAILABLE AT ADIPEC:
Contact Zoe Ogilvie, Director, THE BIG Partnership tel 07973 983243
For further information contact Richard Crighton, account executive tel +44 1224 253813 email richard.crighton@bigpartnership.co.uk
Omega Completion Technology is an innovative, independent well completion and intervention technology developer and manufacturer. The Aberdeen headquartered company launched in 1998 and has grown to more than 60 people with offices in Stavanger, Norway and operational facilities in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Omega is a leading innovator in the completions market with over 25 patents. Its product range is completely designed and manufactured in-house and the team provide bespoke solutions to global clients. The company has a robust growth strategy in place with activity in the North Sea, Middle East and Far East.
Applications of the Gemini RBP:
- Temporary well suspension during well maintenance and workovers
- Zonal isolation, water shut off or treatment
- Pre-installation in completion tail-pipe for packer setting
- Contingency packer setting
- Testing of production tubings
Benefits:
- Increased operational performance due to setting and releasing mechanisms
- No specialised retrieval tool required, standard GS pulling tool used to equalise and retrieve
- Optimised slip design reduces stress loading on tubulars
- Controlled setting action; further enhanced with the Omega hydrostatic setting tool.
- Through bore design provides secondary functionality and increased debris tolerance.
© Press Release 2013
