Offshore staff
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia – EXPEC ARC, the Advanced Research Center of Saudi Aramco’s Exploration and Petroleum Engineering organization, has completed field trials of the steerable access sub (SAS), which was developed jointly with Welltec.
According toAramco, the SAS is the first electro-mechanical robotic system to identify lateral windows and access laterals in real-time data operation. The tool has been deployed in numerous open and cased-hole wells over the past few years.
It provides reservoir engineers with the ability to plan reservoir management at the lateral level in terms of logging and acidizing operations, allowing production engineers to better manage the well, and giving completion engineers the confidence that interventions will be possible in more complex, multi-lateral well designs.
11/04/2014
