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Deepstar Schlumberger utes. By comparison, alternative abra- DEA, from deck deployment to laying from every point simultaneously, for the sive cutting methods could take as long down the Terminator system, took just duration of the well survey.

as ?ve or six hours for the cut alone. two and a half hours – saving the opera- FLI is suitable for a variety of appli-

The Terminator system can be de- tor up to 12 hours compared to conven- cations from integrity monitoring to ployed from a vessel and uses a mechan- tional systems. seismic surveys. Its rapid, lightweight, ical cutter, rather than water jet cut- rigless intervention system delivers sig- ting methods of conventional systems, ni?cant cost and ef?ciency savings, with

FiberLine Intervention to eliminate associated risks with high Aberdeen-based downhole sensing just one engineer at the wellsite and no pressures. Also, the system can reduce technology specialist, Well-SENSE re- requirement for wireline support, ac- offshore personnel by two-thirds com- cently won an award for its FiberLine cording to WellSense.

pared to conventional systems, requir- Intervention and its contribution to the ing just two people instead of the typical offshore well intervention industry

ReLineWL Coretrax six for water cutters. FiberLine Intervention is a new ap- UK-based well integrity and produc-

The Terminator system can reduce proach to gathering well data, employing tion optimization ?rm Coretrax recent- fuel consumption with its 100-horse- single-use, bare ?ber-optics for distribut- ly deployed its ReLineWL expandable power motor and is also smaller and ed temperature and acoustic sensing. The straddle in the Gulf of Mexico, helping lighter compared to the original ?ber delivers immediate data as soon as an operator to troubleshoot an inoper- 1000-horsepower abrasive water cutting it enters the well, demonstrating chang- able safety valve, passing through a re- system typically used on similar types of ing conditions as it is installed from sur- striction that conventional straddles vessel-based operations. face to total depth. FLI then provides a could not pass through.

The total operation with Wintershall dynamic picture of the entire wellbore, According to Coretrax, the one-trip 38 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM