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our latest technologies for oil and gas drilling, formation evaluation, completion and production.
 INTEQ Drills Deepest 12¼" Hole in the Sakhalin ERD Project
INTEQ Sakhalin Island has successfully sidetracked and drilled the deepest 12¼" hole in the Sakhalin ERD project. The 12¼" hole in the Z-16 ST well is 5588 m (18,333 ft) in length and is the deepest at 9788 m (32,112 ft) MD. The record was achieved using an
AutoTrak™ G3.0 system with
CoPilot™ service and Hughes Christensen HCR 506ZX drill bit. Due to a fish in hole at 8197 m (26,893 ft), the well was sidetracked at 7800 m (25,590 ft) – inclination 82.2° – from a cement plug. The well path was steered past the fish and landed horizontally in the target at TD in a single run. The 9-5/8" casing was then successfully run to bottom.
 Baker Petrolite Provides Chemical Treatment Services for Salt Cavern Gas Storage Field
Baker Petrolite is helping a client develop a large gas storage field in salt caverns. The client was experiencing severe problems disposing of salt water due to mineral scale, bacteria and solids plugging the disposal wells. Complex and uncommon operational variables were adding further costs to the project. Baker Petrolite’s field trial and technical recommendations were successfully implemented.
 Hughes Christensen Saves $1.4 Million in Operating Costs in Australia
A global Hughes Christensen team has saved an Australia operator more than $1.4 million in operating costs recently. Working in the Bonaparte basin, offshore Western Australia, the group applied the DART design, application, review team process to choose a 12¼" HCM506ZX drill bit for the application. The
ZX™ PDC bit included patented
EZSteer™ depth-of-cut-control technology and a 3" G1 steerable gage design. The bit drilled 5689 ft (1734 m) in 73.6 hr for an overall ROP of 77.4 ft/hr (23.6 m/hr). It reached TD in the 12¼" section and was drilling so well the customer changed the well design to drill the 8½" section with the bit, which also reached TD. The original well plan called for two, 12¼" bits—one PDC and one TCI—and two 8½" bits. Overall, this
One Fast Run™ saved the operator three days, three bits, one trip, and one casing string.
 Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids PERFORMAX™ Water-based Mud Stabilizes Damaged Formation
Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids recently achieved another successful drilling operation utilizing a
PERFORMAX fluid system for a national oil company. The original well was drilled with a conventional water based mud system to a TD of 13,406 ft (4103 m). During the conditioning trip, the hole was packed off and splintery cuttings were observed at the shakers. Despite raising the mud weight, the operator could not get back to bottom. The operator was prepared to sidetrack the well when Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids proposed displacing to the PERFORMAX system and reaming the previously damaged formation. The use of PERFORMAX fluid in this situation enabled the operator to stabilize the damaged formation, and run casing without problems and avoid sidetracking the well.
 Baker Atlas Successfully Logs HPHT Well in the Gulf of Mexico
Baker Atlas recently achieved a notable high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) logging success in the Gulf of Mexico. Using
Nautilus™ HPHT equipment, logging was performed at a depth of 24,300 ft (7407 m) at a temperature of 355° F (179° C) and approximately 25,000 psi.
The pipe-conveyed logging run consisted of induction logging,
XMAC ,
gamma ray and checkshot services. The
LiveWire service was also used to allow the client to make real-time decisions. The operation was completed in 79 hours with flawless execution and no lost-time.
 Baker Oil Tools Installs World’s First Liner Hanger with Liner Top Packer in a Deepwater India Well
Baker Oil Tools installed successfully in India the world’s first 10¾" x 13-3/8"
ControlSET™ Liner Hanger System with
ZXP™ Liner Top Packer in a deepwater well. The 1321 m (4334 ft) of liner was successfully run to target depth of 3993 m (13,100 ft) using a Hughes Christensen EZ™ ream shoe. The running assembly consisted of a 10¾" HRDE running tool with a special internal sleeve feature, RS pack off with slick stinger, ported swab cup and a delayed opening ball sub to minimize the surge to formation when ball is out from seat. The deviation at liner landing point was kept 90° to drill the 8½" horizontal lateral in the reservoir section and produce the wells.
 Centrilift ESPs Exceed One-Year Run Time in Western Australia
Six Centrilift Electro-Coil
electrical submersible pumping (ESP) systems installed at the ROC Oil Cliffhead Field offshore Western Australia exceeded an average run time of one year in October. Electro-Coil technology allows the ESP systems to be installed using coiled tubing, a critical factor for Cliffhead where environmental regulations in the offshore area prohibit the use of a manned platform, so all work must be conducted during the day. The ROC Cliffhead project is the first offshore application of Centrilift Electro-Coil systems and the first time the systems have ever been used in 5½" casing.
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 ICoTA
Innovation Award for GasView Service
Baker Atlas has received the
Intervention & Coiled Tubing
Association (ICoTA) European Chapter’s annual Innovation Award
for its
GasView service. The presentation was made during the SPE/ICoTA European Well Intervention Round Table, held at the
Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Center in Aberdeen. The Baker
Atlas GasView service provides a clear quantification of
reservoir gas saturations through casing, regardless of water
salinities. Baker Atlas introduced the GasView technology to aid
in the identification of bypassed gas in mature fields, allowing
the operator to maximize gas production in existing wells.
 New
Liquid Mud Plant Support Offshore Brazil Operations
Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids Brazil has completed the first load
out of drilling fluids chemicals and liquid mud from its new
shore base in Niterio, Rio de Janeiro. This shore base has a
500-barrel mixing tank for drilling fluid (WBM or SBM) and a
250-barrel mixing tank for completion fluids, storage for 9,000
barrels of liquid mud and bulk barite and bentonite.
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Hughes at Technical Conferences
Middle East PetroTech 2008
January 14 - 16
Manama, Bahrain
SPE/IADC Managed Pressure Drilling &
Underbalanced Operations Conference & Exhibition
January 28 - 29
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Offshore West Africa Conference &
Exhibition
January 29 - 31
Abuja, Nigeria
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