BJ Services soups up units for deepwater cementing

Offshore staff

HOUSTON -- In order to meet operators' demands for reduced mixing and pumping times during deepwater cementing, BJ Services continues to develop higher horsepower cementing units with a wider array of configuration options.

In recent months a 1,600-brake horsepower (BHP) version and a powerful 2,300-BHP model were developed to handle displacement tasks at higher rates and pressures. High-speed fiber optics let the equipment communicate via remote.

Twin-mixing capabilities are being developed for the 2,300-BHP Seahawk unit for blending rates to 20 bpm to be deployed on an ultra-deepwater drillship in the Gulf of Mexico in 2009.

01/06/2009