KEEPING IT CENTRAL
G I
T
IAIN LEVIE,
ANTELOPE OIL TOOLS,
USA, INTRODUCES A
COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTION
FOR USE IN DEEPWATER
DRILLING.
W
hile many in the oil and
gas industry are facing
strong challenges to
navigate through challenging times,
Antelope Oil Tools is utilising this
volatile time to research, develop
and innovate new technologies that
will optimise well construction efforts,
specifically in casing running and
cementing applications.
Companies that are actively drilling
wells must make their operations as
efficient and cost-effective as possible in
2016 and beyond to adjust to today’s market,
and the near term forecasts for the industry.
Antelope is dedicating significant resources
to develop more efficient and cost-effective
solutions that are designed to provide an
economic benefit without sacrificing performance
and reliability.
One of the major challenges associated
with drilling deepwater offshore wells is that
annular clearances are extremely tight, making
the challenge of obtaining maximum stand-off
capacity when centralising casing in deepwater well
formations increasingly difficult. The most common
approach has been to utilise centraliser subs in tight
tolerance well applications. However, the company’s
‘On-The-Pipe-Solutions’ offer operators another
alternative in many cases for centralising casing strings by
installing its CentraMax® Close Tolerance (CT) Centraliser(s)
and WearSox® thermal spray directly onto the casing
|
35
