World's coiled tubing unit fleet grows

摘要

Annual CT rig count indicates another 5% increase in 2009. The number of coiled tubing (CT) units has expanded steadily in the last decade, reaching 1,778 at the end of 2009, up from 761 at the end of 1998 - an average increase of 5% every year. Service contractors added about 83 coiled tubing units (CTUs) to the worldwide fleet in 2009, based on the new annual survey results generated by Les Tomlin, Trican Well Services, Calgary. This represents an increase of nearly 5% over the 2008 world fleet size of 1,695 CT units. The largest fleet increases were in Latin America (64 additional CTUs) and the Far East (66 additional CTUs). Several dozen CTUs were also sent to the Middle East, Europe and Africa, and Russia. Fleet sizes dropped slightly in North America.