BJ Tubular Services completes well services operation in Qatar

Offshore staff

(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