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Remote actuation system speeds deepwater well completions. T. Bussear. OGJ, 7 October 1996, 94(41), 56, 58, 59.

Details are given of how substantial savings in rig time, operating expenses, and overall completion costs, particularly in extended-reach and deepwater wells, can be realized with advanced wireline communication techniques and electronically enhanced pulse-actuation systems for completing wells. Baker Oil Tools' EDGE remote actuation system, a surface-controlled communications system that relies on pressure-wave pulses to actuate electronic-equipped downhole completion tools, has been deployed commercially in a number of deep, high-pressure, high-temperature wells in the Gulf of Mexico. System basics, and the installation at Shell Offshore Inc.'s Mars deepwater development project in the Gulf of Mexico is described together with the relevant benefits and limitations, and time improvements.

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Journal title: Oil and Gas Journal

Keywords: deepwater

Subjects: Reservoir Engineering, Electrical and electronic engineering, Banking, finance and investment, Project Management, Maintenance, Economics, business and commerce, Communications Equipment Installation and Maintenance, Pipeline, Oil and gas extraction, Oil and gas, Oil, Primary energy production, High-pressure high-temperature, Wireline operations, Wave power