| The wireline company may also be employed to carry | | | | which makes them essential to the industry when |
| out maintenance, either as a routine measure, or in | | | | facing problems involving through-tubing. Oil and gas |
| direct response to a situation that may have | | | | well operators find this helps in reducing down-hole |
| developed. A wireline services company can prove | | | | costs of production and maintenance. This can be |
| invaluable to oil or gas operators as their services can | | | | extended throughout the entire lifetime of the well, |
| be deployed under pressure without damage to the | | | | making it an obvious solution of choice. |
| well. | | | | One of the biggest advantages for an oil well producer |
| In general terms, the wireline services company will run | | | | in using a wireline service company is that wireline |
| a single strand wire, or a multi-strand wire, into the gas | | | | tasks can easily be performed while a well is under |
| or oil well. This may be done to set flow control on | | | | pressure. This has the obvious advantage that the well |
| various devices. It may also be performed for | | | | does not need to be killed, thereby cutting out all the |
| processes of clean out, or to place instruments that will | | | | associated costs and problems with that exercise. |
| gather readings of temperature or pressure in order to | | | | Production can continue unhindered and there is no |
| establish an accurate monitoring of the situation within | | | | time lost. Killing a well is costly and time consuming, and |
| the well. | | | | damage can occur. Additionally, it is time consuming |
| Pressure control equipment used by a wireline | | | | and costly getting a well back into production. A |
| company must be designed to withstand extremes of | | | | company with the necessary experience required can |
| pressure and temperature. The equipment will often | | | | eliminate the need for such an operation. Wireline |
| withstand pressures up to 15,000 pounds per square | | | | service companies work all over the world offering |
| inch. It will also be designed to withstand the kind of | | | | their expertise to oil an gas companies operating from |
| corrosion attack it is likely to encounter inside an oil or | | | | the North Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico to the Ivory |
| gas well. Pressure control equipment can come in | | | | Coast and Azerbaijan. |
| various sizes. It can be used through a bore hole as | | | | Wireline open-hole logging can provide a widely varied |
| small as two and a half inches diameter, or as large as | | | | continuous record of measurements within an oil well, |
| one nine inches in diameter. | | | | such as hydrogen content, bulk density, and the natural |
| What are the Advantages For the Oil and Gas | | | | and induced radioactivity levels, and more. Companies |
| Industry? | | | | offering wireline services have the expertise through |
| Wireline services provide the oil and gas production | | | | their engineers to perform the necessary operations |
| industry with a relatively low cost solution to one of | | | | safely and cheaply, making them an invaluable service |
| their most basic needs. They are readily available, | | | | to the industry. |