Exclusive video: Keystone module enables remote control of downhole tools

Posted on 15 May 2013

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Paul Day, business development director for Weatherford, speaks with Drilling Contractor associate editor Katherine Scott about the company’s Keystone module on the exhibit floor of the 2013 OTC on 8 May in Houston. The Keystone module is an RFID-based, remotely operated electronic completion system to control downhole tools that can set packers or open packer setting ports, operate sliding sleeves to allow tubing to annulus circulation, close and open barrier valves, and operate fill subs. The system is made up of four elements— an RFID-hydraulic-power unit, a circulation valve, a production packer and a fall-through-flapper barrier valve.

Keystone is a trademark of Weatherford.

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Exclusive video: New composite wireline cable contains seven-conductor electrical core

Posted on 15 May 2013

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Serko Sarian, telemetry and conveyance portfolio manager for Schlumberger, talks with Drilling Contractor associate editor Katherine Scott about the company’s TuffLINE composite wireline cable on the exhibit floor at the 2013 OTC on 6 May in Houston. Developed over five years at the Schlumberger Houston Conveyance and Surface Equipment Center, the cable consists of a seven-conductor electrical core protected by two opposite wound steel armors and engineers out high-tension conveyance limitations.

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