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OFFSHORE DENMARK

Innovation in intervention

Welltec’s well tractor has

Thus was born the e-line deployed Well

Tractor that could deploy logging tools transitioned from an unlikely into horizontal and highly deviated wells vision to a solid reality now without the use of heavier intervention deployed in deepwater wells.

methods like coiled tubing or drill pipe.

Industry workers thought it couldn’t be

OE explains. done, but Hallundbæk, who studied at the Technical University of Denmark, believed in his idea and in transforming ometimes it takes an outsider to pin- the industry. point how matters can be improved. A

S case in point was illustrated when, 25 years

Today, the Well Tractor has become ago, a young, Danish MSE student looked standard equipment to many opera- at the oil industry and wondered if interven- tors. Denmark-based Welltec, the tions could become more e