BJ Tubular Services completes well services operation in Qatar

Aug. 30, 2005
BJ Tubular Services has completed an integrated services contract for Qatar Shell GTL Ltd., for the Pearl GTL project in Qatar. The four-month contract required BJ Tubular Services to carry out casing and tubing running services for two wells on Shell's development in the North Field at NSF-1 offshore Qatar in support of the Gas to Liquids (GTL) project.

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(Aberdeen, Scotland)-BJ Tubular Services has completed an integrated services contract for Qatar Shell GTL Ltd., for the Pearl GTL project in Qatar. The four-month contract required BJ Tubular Services to carry out casing and tubing running services for two wells on Shell's development in the North Field at NSF-1 offshore Qatar in support of the Gas to Liquids (GTL) project.

BJ Tubular ran 30-in. casing using belt tongs, as well as 13-3/8-in., 9-5/8-in., 7-in. tubulars and DST tools. A special flush-mounted spider was used in conjunction with its state-of-the-art energized fill-and-circulate (FAC) system to run the 20-in. casing.

BJ Services' Well Services �Middle East Region also supplied Liquid Stone cement technology, a delayed setting premix of cement slurry which allows precise formulation and confirmation testing of the cement system well in advance of the service operations.

08/30/05