Offshore Completion
Canadian companies have extensive offshore completion experience. Quality assurance and control are essential. Canadian petroleum engineering companies consistently use the latest technologies including:
- Detailed stress analysis technology that monitors and manages the completion of subsea offshore wells, such as at Terra Nova;
- Planning, intervention and state–of–the–art wellbore simulation software;
- Continuous downhole monitoring of temperatures and pressures which improves production management;
- Fabrication of offshore/marine equipment such as topside modules, rig platforms, well heads and valves;
- Diving and remotely controlled vehicles (ROV).
Canadians are innovative in developing new equipment and procedures including:
- Composite Pumping Tree that combines a tubing head adapter, blowout preventer (BOP) and flow tree with no connections between the BOP and the tubing head adapter;
- Using crude oil as a drilling fluid, and underbalanced drilling procedures for completing multi–lateral wells;
- Applying coil tubing drilling procedures to offshore wells;
- testing systems to simulate worst–case wave scenarios.
