| Halliburton
extends underbalanced applications products and services
Posted: 14 May 2003
More operators are discovering the significant benefit
of using underbalanced technologies to improve reservoir performance
HOUSTON, Texas – Halliburton Energy Services
(HES), a business unit of Halliburton, has expanded its underbalanced
service offering in an effort to meet the needs of operators who
are turning to underbalanced applications project management and
supervision to improve reservoir performance.
"The underbalanced drilling market is growing rapidly,"
said Kent Ostroot, global business manager for Underbalanced Applications
business. "Initially our project management for underbalanced
applications was focused on work in the United States, Indonesia,
South America and Portugal. We have now expanded the services we
offer as well as the areas in which we offer them."
Engineering, project management, and data acquisition services
are offered in the North Sea, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia
Pacific. Halliburton's uniquely designed Four Phase Separation System
and the Insite Data Acquisition System form the backbone of Halliburton's
UBA service.
"These industry leading technologies allow us to differentiate
our Real Time Reservoir Evaluation strategy in these regions,"
Ostroot said. "Our team of underbalanced drilling specialists
and reservoir engineers work with the customer and with other Halliburton
product service lines to provide a truly integrated offering from
well construction through completion."
Recently on a project in the Asia-Pacific, Halliburton's UBA team
provided underbalanced services that resulted in a significant increase
in production rate over conventionally drilled overbalanced wells
in the depleted oil field. There were also notable improvements
in drilling rates and directional drilling control.
In Indonesia, Halliburton was involved with a successful underbalanced
drilling campaign in a fractured carbonate formation, where past
conventional drilling had experienced total fluid losses along with
associated drilling problems. The underbalanced drilling resulted
in significant production increases due to a reduction of fracture
plugging/formation damage.
"As more operators gain confidence in the application of underbalanced
processes and technology, we have the potential to change the way
industry does business and Halliburton is happy to be a part of
this change," said Gary Godwin, division vice president, Tools,
Testing & Tubing Conveyed Perforating product service line,
Halliburton Energy Services. "Our emphasis is on maximising
reservoir performance, and our UBA capability allows us to leverage
HES' spectrum of technology and know-how as a truly integrated service."
Halliburton Energy Services provides products, services, and integrated
solutions for oil and gas exploration, development, and production.
Capabilities range from initial evaluation of producing formations
to drilling, completion, stimulation, and well maintenance –
for a single well or an entire field. With more than 300 service
centers in more than 100 countries, Halliburton possesses the global
perspective that is increasingly important for energy exploration
and production.
Halliburton, founded in 1919, is one of the world's largest providers
of products and services to the petroleum and energy industries.
The company serves its customers with a broad range of products
and services through its Energy Services Group and Engineering and
Construction Group business segments.
For more information see www.halliburton.com.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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