Offshore staff

DYCE, UK – Saudi Aramco has awarded Pragma Well Technology a three-year contract valued at more than $700,000.

Saudi Aramco Exploration and Petroleum Engineering Centre - Advanced Research Centre (EXPEC ARC) will sponsor a three-year contract

The contractor will develop an extreme expandable packer for EXPEC ARC, as part of a thru-tubing water shut-off program. This will involve production of a thru-tubing expandable patch (TEP), employing additive manufacturing, said Pragma’s technical director Dan Purkis.

“These printing machines can manufacture parts that would be impossible using traditional reductive techniques,” he explained, “making extreme expansion solutions possible.”

Jonathan Brown, senior petroleum engineer at Aramco, added: “This collaboration is part of our Fourth Industrial Revolution initiative in the area of advanced materials.

“We strive to sponsor new methods to solve old problems and Pragma has discovered a way to develop designs that were not possible even 10 years ago.”

The TEP will be deployed via traditional well intervention to further extend the life of wells ahead of re-completion or side tracking.

10/05/2018