Flushbys: A Highly Efficient and Versatile Service Technology

摘要

Every day in the oil and gas industry, cutting-edge technology is driven—sometimes inch by inch and occasionally in great leaps forward. Commitments are taken to make the seemingly impossible, possible, to provide solutions to the challenges of tomorrow. Advanced technology is used, not for its own sake, but to find practical solutions that enhance safety, are user friendly, are well engineered, and enable better recovery. Therefore, the primary endeavors in any upstream environment are to fully perceive the application needs of wells and thereafter provide innovative and reliable solutions that withstand the test of time and cost, and to continue to pursue improvements in quality without compromising safety. Here, solution means integrated resources; integrated resources means people, process and technology. The target is to make the integrated resources a successful collaboration between these three, the scale of measuring how successful this solution is judged only by comparing it to a similar solution of the same environment and applications needs. The solution discussed in this paper is a "flushby"—a state-of-the-art technology adaption that requires fewer operating people and has shorter work process with less nonproductive time (NPT) compared to alternatives, such as a service workover rig, for the same applications. The possibilities and value potential associated with integrated resources are substantial, and implementation is therefore identified by the industry as a strategic tool to ensure a sustainable development. Thus, integrated resources yield accelerated and increased production at reduced operating costs and with uncompromised high safety levels and high standards of environmental stewardship. The oil and gas industry, like any other industry, is affected by the global market economic stability and oil prices. Hence, during exigent economic times, a producer's concern is to minimize operating costs. In contrast, during prosperous periods, producers focus on optimizing the operating time to maximize recovery. Flushbys can play a vital positive role in both economic periods.