• Production Testing
• Under Balanced Drilling
• Managed-Pressure Drilling

 

 

Production Testing

Our Production Testing services includes:

• AOF production tests (use of a portable separator to determine the wells production capability of oil and gases)
• Fracture and stimulation recovery (use of a separator to clean up the well bore after a stimulation project has been completed on the well)
• Inline production testing (use of a separator to tie into an operators pipeline providing a flow analysis for the operator to prove a particular wells production, without have to shut in the well)
• Under balanced drilling services (use of a separator to recover all drilling returns from a well during the drilling of the pay zone section of the well)

Production Testing Equipment

 

Reform has taken great pains in designing a separator with many innovative features to save time and money, and enhance safety. The following are some of the key differences versus other equipment on the market. Some of the key features of our testing units include:

• Air compressors: We supply our own instrument air, saving you logistical and fuel costs of propane.
• Self contained electric heating system: Our systems feature their own self contained electric heating system. You won't have to supply a boiler for us, reducing your operating costs.
• Free standing flare stacks: Our flare stacks are zero ground disturbance and eliminate the need for anchors, as well as a picker to set them up. This saves substantial time and cost.
• Tornado Pilot System: Using a Tornado pilot system, we can substantially reduce the consumption of propane, saving operating costs.
• Higher pressure separators: Reform has a 500 psi (with a 720 psi available in Oct 2005) working pressure separator. This results in less erosion on the equipment and lower cost to you for downtime.
• Fully portable equipment: built into a trailer that only needs to be pulled. Our equipment has been designed into portable trailers, offering great cost savings to the client, especially in cases where a client has multiple locations to be serviced.
• Trailer Booster: Our equipment is capable of accepting a booster, meaning we can easily add wheels to distribute weight that normally would be problematic in case of road ban. This means you can conduct business as usual when others face work stoppages. We can also add a jeep under the front of the trailer.
• Dual head electrical chemical injection pumps: Most companies use pneumatic systems (using nitrogen or propane). Ours use electricity, saving substantial operating costs.
• 2" 5K welded manifold with 2 bypass choke loops: Most units on the market are threaded, our design is dramatically safer.
• Dual pressure relief valves: If the system becomes over-pressured, there is a safety risk. Most separator systems have a pressure relief valve to combat this. We have two - if one fails, there is always a backup.

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Under Balanced Drilling

What is Under Balanced Drilling?

 

The Under Balanced Drilling (UBD) technology as used today has been around for approximately 11 years, although variations of the technology such as flow drilling have been around for over 30+ years. UBD using a closed loop control system was developed primarily for drilling low-pressure wells in Canada to help eliminate drilling problems associated with horizontal drilling. For UBD to be effective it is necessary to reduce the hydrostatic pressure of the drilling medium so as not to damage the formation during drilling and to eliminate the chances of differential sticking and lost circulation. A further advantage of this technology is the increased penetration rate in hard drilling formations.

 

Conventional mud systems were unable to accomplish this, as even the lightest mud available could cause damage due to fluid invasion. The damage caused during drilling operations required stimulation to eliminate the skin. Many times this procedure was unsuccessful, resulting in an uneconomic well. Problems with drill string sticking and lost circulation were commonplace in these formations.

 

The application of these techniques resulted in wells that would flow during the drilling process. This required the development of surface control equipment to handle this flow while drilling, through this evolution; the modern age of Under Balanced Drilling was born.

 

 

Underbalanced Drilling Units

 

Reform has designed our underbalanced drilling units to save time and money, and enhance safety. The following are some of the key differences versus other equipment on the market.

• Fully portable equipment: built into a trailer that only needs to be pulled. Typically, UBD equipment is built on skids. Ours, however, are built as portable trailers, offering great cost savings to the client, especially in cases where a client has multiple locations to be serviced.
• Trailer Booster: Our equipment is capable of accepting a booster, meaning we can easily add wheels to distribute weight that normally would be problematic in case of road ban. This means you can conduct business as usual when others face work stoppages. We can also add a jeep under the front of the trailer.
• Higher pressure separators: Most underbalanced separators have a working pressure of 250 psi. Reform has a 500 psi working pressure separator. This results in less erosion on the equipment and lower cost to you for downtime.
• Multiple inlets, with sleeves: Most separators have only one inlet, which means when it erodes, causes immediate downtime. Ours has multiple inlets, so flow can be dispersed. We also sleeve inlets to reduce downtime and cost, as the sleeves are inexpensive and relatively easy to replace. No heat treatment or radiography is required. This avoids a great deal of downtime on the job.
• Multiple compartment sparge system: Most of our competitors simply sparge one compartment of the separator. We sparge several compartments, meaning the tanks stay cleaner, resulting in cleaner drilling fluid. This avoids damage to the separator, as well as rig equipment and down hole tools, reducing downtime.
• Variable speed auger: This removes the solids from the separator, and can adjust for the amount of solids in the fluid. This saves wear and tear on the pump, and keeps the tanks cleaner. Also helps to reduce downtime.
• Self contained electric heating system: Our UBD systems feature there own self contained electric heating system. You won't have to supply a boiler for us, reducing your operating costs.
• High Horsepower fluid transfer pumps: Most companies use 5 HP pumps. Ours use 10 HP, so that there is less downtime resulting from an overtaxed motor wearing out.
• Dual head electrical chemical injection pumps: Most companies use pneumatic systems (using nitrogen or propane). Ours use electricity, saving substantial operating costs.
• Tornado Pilot System: Using a Tornado pilot system, we can substantially reduce the consumption of propane, saving operating costs.
• Free standing flare stacks: Our flare stacks are zero ground disturbance and eliminate the need for anchors, as well as a picker to set them up. This saves substantial time and cost.
• 2" 5K Kelly bleed manifold with 2 bypass choke loops: Dual choke manifold for bleeding off drill string. Can bleed off to separator, direct to flare or down fluid line.
• 4" 5K plug valve drill manifolds with dual choke 4" bypass: Typically when a valve leaks, the flanges must be broken to change it out. Most operators will insert a new valve, but not bother to re-pressure test the manifold. In our manifold, we have used plug valves, eliminating the need for removing the complete valve when repairing. The plug and seats can be removed and replaced without breaking any flanges in a very timely manner. This is much safer, and quicker - and means a client's other contractors aren't waiting around while valve maintenance is being done (or redone because the lack of pressure testing caused a failure!).
• Dual pressure relief valves: If the system becomes over-pressured, you risk safety hazards. Most competing UBD systems have a pressure relief valve to combat this. We have two - if one fails, there is always a backup.

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Managed-Pressure Drilling (MPD)

Managed-Pressure Drilling (MPD) is a drilling technology that challenges traditional drilling practices of using a weighted mud system.

 

MPD involves drilling through a controlled closed loop system that appropriately manipulates the annular pressure profile by increasing or decreasing back pressure at surface.

 

This technique resolves many traditional drilling problems and drilling hazards. Some of these include:

1. Better hole cleaning,
2. Maintain a constant well bore pressure,
3. Allow overpressured kicks to be circulated out of hole in a safe manner,
4. Cleaner Drilling fluid to help increase rop and downtime with bha’s,
5. Avoids lost circulation.

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