Continous growth Weatherford Norge

CONTINUOUS GROWTH

Headquartered in Forus, Norway, Weatherford Norge is a part of the global Weatherford International Ltd – one of the largest global providers of advanced products and services for oil and natural gas wells. Industry Europe looks at this company’s activities and its most recent developments.

Weatherford has been offering tubular running services to clients drilling on the Norwegian shelf since 1968. In 1974 Weatherfield Norge A/S was established in order for the international group to maintain a permanent presence on the Norwegian market. Today it has a network of eight facilities located in strategic positions throughout the country, in Stavanger (three facilities), Bergen, Florø, Harstad, Tananger and Ålgård.

The company has been growing continuously since its establishment in Norway, fuelled in part by the plentiful oil supply in the country (with the largest oil and gas reserves in western Europe at its disposal), a strong economy and an increase in global demand for its products and services. The company’s website declares that its activities are channeled towards three main areas: maximising production in Norway’s maturing fields; exploiting undeveloped resources in the Barents Sea; and leveraging technology to minimise the environmental impact of drilling operations.

Local products and services

Weatherford Norge’s products and services fall into five broad categories, spanning the entire life cycle of a well. These are: Drilling, Evaluation, Completion, Production and Intervention. The first of these, Drilling, has the widest range.

Products in this area include the widest range of cementing products on the market. It also offers drilling services, drilling tools, drillingwith-casing, inflatable packers, liner systems and solid expandable systems. Whatever the drilling need, Weatherford will have a solution for it. This is how it is able to maintain its market-leading position.

Moving on to the area of Evaluation services, these include: integrated laboratory services; a wide range of surface logging systems to “reduce the guesswork inherent in drilling and completing oil and gas wells”; and wireline services such as cased-hole logging and perforating, and pipe recovery.

Weatherford’s Completion services cover cased-hole completions to enable its customers to meet even the toughest challenges related to deepwater, high-pressure/ high-temperature and other hostile environments. Its Optimum Upper-Completion System mitigates the elevated risk, and potentially expensive consequences, of performance failures in harsh environments. A range of well screens is also available to meet any application, from standalone or gravel pack applications to openhole and cased-hole environments.

One of the company’s key services in the Production area is its artificial lift systems, based on precise analysis of reservoir data. If the data is managed precisely, a bespoke lift system can be developed by Weatherford to ensure improved control of lifting costs and enhanced reservoir recovery. Its engineered chemistry division, meanwhile, provides costeffective chemical treatments for oil and gas production. Lastly, its production optimisation systems allow an operator to manage either a single well, a reservoir or an entire field.

The last category of products and services, Intervention, is divided into two areas: fishing services and casing exits; and thrutubing services. The first of these includes Weatherford’s unique Millsmart technology,

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OILFIELD INSPECTION SERVICES

STAVANGER - NORWAY

∙ Drill Pipe Inspection ∙ B.H.A. Inspection ∙ O.C.T.G Inspection ∙ Offshore Inspection ∙ Handling Equipment Inspection ∙ Video Inspection ∙ Magnetic Permability Test ∙ Drill Pipe Hardbanding ∙ Hardness Testing

Hamrasletta 9, 4056 Tananger, Norway Phone: +47 51 64 48 00 - Fax: +47 51 64 48 00 Email: stein@euroincon.com - www.euroincon.com

which is an engineered approach to milling that encompasses a wide range of proven products, services and technical resources. The technology is based upon a huge amount of milling data gathered by Weatherford’s worldwide Performance Tracking System and used to create best practices for almost any application.

The thru-tubing services for the Intervention category are designed to remove obstructions which can severely restrict a well’s production capacity. Weatherford has a wide range of equipment and obstruction removal systems, with a full line of tools and accessories to address almost any application or wellbore obstruction – from standard motor applications to the more challenging under-reaming, tubing cutting, window milling, drilling or fish removal.

A responsible employer

Weatherford Norge employs around 440 people, and is dedicated to maintaining the highest industry standards when it comes to quality, health, safety, security and the environment (QHSSE). To this end, it has dedicated QHSSE professionals overseeing its operations, all of which are ISO 9001 certified.

Training also plays a vital role in maintaining the company’s strong service offering. As its website states: “Recognising the integral role training and competence play in our ability to serve our clients, we provide our personnel with classroom training at domestic and global training facilities to supplement their field experience.” n