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PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: Baker Hughes INTEQ The Right Stuff: systems integrator matches resources to customers Susan Braund Petroleum Directory Contributing Writer
NASA space flight designers and engineers are acutely aware that successful missions require the most exacting technology and the best in human capital — the right stuff.
When it comes to meeting project needs, Baker Hughes INTEQ also makes sure to provide the right stuff — top notch technology and advanced services. By providing integrated solutions from its oilfield group, INTEQ increases efficiency, well by well.
“We can apply the experience and capabilities of the entire Baker Hughes organization to provide the right product, design the right system or plan an integrated solution to meet your objectives,” says INTEQ’s Alaska Area Manager Dave Reimer. “When a project calls for technology and service from more than one Baker Hughes company, INTEQ and any of our divisions can provide integrated solutions and develop partnerships with customers and contractors. We represent all of Baker Hughes and can commit the company’s full resources to meeting the needs of your project.”
According to company literature, Baker Hughes has developed technology for every phase of well construction and maintenance and built an organization to deliver solutions that reduce the cost of developing oil and gas. “For example, your project may call for a comprehensive drill bit program from Hughes Christensen, directional well planning from INTEQ, completions systems and methods designed by Baker Oil Tools, electric submersible pump systems engineered by Centrilift or a chemical treatment program from Baker Petrolite.
In addition, OASIS — a division within Hughes Christensen — is the Baker Hughes engineering and consulting service for drilling optimization. OASIS specialists are drawn from a company-wide pool to evaluate difficult drilling situations. And, during project planning, company information specialists use custom software and data base capabilities to prepare the best well bore design to optimize reservoir production. INTEQ increases well efficiency and productivity Formed through a merger of individual directional drilling and measurement-while-drilling companies, INTEQ has been in Alaska for more than 20 years. Adding value to the drilling process through its products and services, INTEQ delivers advanced drilling technologies and services that increase efficiency and enable precise well placement. Major capabilities include directional drilling, measurement-while-drilling, logging-while-drilling and well-site information management services.
Directional drilling — INTEQ is an industry leader in directional and performance drilling applications, enhanced by the AutoTrak® rotary closed loop drilling system and Navi-Drill® Ultra Series tools. The company’s drilling systems have been used in thousands of vertical, horizontal and directional wells around the world.
Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD) — INTEQ offers surface and downhole, information and evaluation technology to help control well placement. “Our systems provide accurate information to help oil companies enhance drilling performance, optimize well placement and gather quantitative information about the reservoir,” says Reimer.
Logging-While-Drilling (LWD) — LWD systems provide quantitative, wireline-replacement logs in directional, horizontal or exploration wells for optimal placement.
Well-site information services — Using an array of sensors, hardware, software and Internet technology, the new RigLink data communications service enables clients to access real-time rig site data from any location. Products and Services Applications for Baker Hughes INTEQ drilling systems include offshore development and exploration wells, extended reach wells, horizontal wells, geosteering, performance-drilled straight wells, re-entry wells and coiled tubing drilling.
INTEQ offers a full range of drilling products: directional only, acoustic, nuclear, gamma ray and resistivity. Recent technology developments include:
• TestTrak® for formation testing
• AutoTrak® Rotary Closed Loop System —an integrated rotary steerable drilling and MWD/LWD system that provides precise directional control with continuous drill string rotation
• NaviTrak®/NaviGamma® services —MWD systems that deliver real-time directional and directional/gamma ray information for drilling operations.
• Complete line of LWD tools that provide gamma ray/resistivity and nuclear services for complete formation evaluation
• APX® (Acoustic Properties eXplorer) — LWD acoustic logging tools
• Modular Advanced Pressure (MAP™) tool provides advanced downhole pressure measurements
• VertiTrak ® — drills perfectly straight holes, self-monitoring
• CoilTrak® — coiled tubing drilling
• Xtreme Motors® — new extreme downhole mud motors for directional drilling in a wide range of sizes, configured for directional and straight-hole drilling, hole sizes from 3 7/8 inches to 23 inches.
“We engineer and provide our drilling technology as part of a customized system, including directional and horizontal drilling motors, drill bits, measurement-while-drilling and completions,” says Reimer. “This integrated approach can enhance overall drilling performance and maximize the production potential of each well.”
Reimer, an engineering graduate from Colorado School of Mines, has been with the company for 22 years. “INTEQ is dynamic … it’s always been proactive in providing proper technology and services to help customers drill well and in making sure technologies needed for the next generation are being developed. It’s interesting to see how the energy business changes and progresses,” he says. “Some of the technology that was brand new when I started are now commonplace. The advancing technology keeps it exciting and interesting… there are always new challenges. It’s rewarding to have access to solutions that add value at every step of the process — drilling, completion and production.”
Editor’s note: Susan Braund owns Firestar Media Services in Anchorage, Alaska.
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