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IndustryFocus: Companies, People and Products
Claxton, LR Form Alliance
To Ease Decommissioning
ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND-Acteon
subsidiary Claxton Engineering Services
Ltd. has allied with LR Senergy to provide
clients with a fully managed, technically
proficient end-to-end offshore rig-based
decommissioning service.
"Combining Claxton's decommissioning
expertise with LR Senergy's wealth of
well engineering and project management
capabilities will provide customers with
access to a unique combination of experience and skill sets for all decommissioning
scenarios," says Nick Wood, Claxton's
commercial vice president. "LR Senergy
has an enviable track record in the end-toend management of global well engineering
projects. Its decommissioning offering focuses on delivering safe and cost-effective
rig-based solutions tailor-made for clients'
specific requirements."
The alliance builds on a long-established relationship between the two companies, they say.
For information, visit www.claxtonengineering.com or www.lr-senergy.com.
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New Artiﬁcial Lift System Shines In First Field Trial
HOUSTON-In its first field trial,
Baker Hughes' LEAPTM adaptive production system is delivering 300 percent
greater oil production and 200 percent
more natural gas production than the
previous artificial lift solution, Baker
Hughes reports. The new system was
installed at a depth of 5,200 feet in the
Mississippian Lime play in Woods
County, Ok., for SandRidge Energy.
Baker Hughes describes the system
as an entirely new approach to artificial
lift that is designed to adapt to unconventional oil wells' often dynamic production profiles. A promotional video
on the company's website suggests the
system can handle production volumes
ranging from 1,000 barrels a day to a

In its first field trial, the LEAPTM
adaptive production system
from Baker Hughes has tripled
oil production. The company
says the system can adapt to
changing production volumes.

Pemex Extends ION's Pact
To Process Seismic Data
HOUSTON-ION Geophysical Corp.
has been awarded an extension to its existing multiyear contract with Petróleos
Mexicanos. Under this contract, ION says
it is providing a broad range of seismic
data processing for multiple offshore and
onshore surveys. The work will be executed at ION's Villahermosa, Mexico and
Houston offices and through its Houston
high performance computing center.
ION says it will utilize its proprietary
imaging technologies to process seismic
data it has acquired for Pemex, including in
deepwater regions of the Gulf of Mexico, in
highly complex subsalt areas, and in various
onshore regions throughout Mexico.
The scope of services includes velocity
model building, pre-stack depth migration
using both beam migration and high frequency reverse time migration techniques,
and ION's latest advancements in full waveform and orthorhombic tomography, the
company says. It adds that, through its professionals at Villahermosa, ION will collaborate closely with its Pemex counterparts
to accelerate identification of exploration
leads and development drilling targets.
For information visit iongeo.com/imaging.
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dozen. The video adds that LEAP has a
small surface footprint and exceptional
gas and solids handling capabilities.
According to Baker Hughes, the
downhole system consists of a positive
displacement pump, which can be installed to sit deeper in a well than traditional rod pumps; a submersible linear
electromagnetically actuated motor,
which drives the pump and eliminates
the need for a long rod string (a primary
source of failure in rod lift systems);
and a sensor that provides pressure and
temperature data to help ensure the
highest level of production optimization
and system longevity. The company
says the LEAP system surface variable
speed drive's proprietary software integrates with downhole electronics to allow pumping system speed and stroke length
to be adjusted remotely as
production rates change.
For information, visit
www.bakerhughes.com/leap. ❒

OpenEnterprise Connects To AMS Device Manager
HOUSTON-Emerson Process Management's OpenEnterprise v3 SCADA
platform for the onshore oil and gas market
now has a native interface to the AMS
Device Manager asset management software, enabling users to remotely manage
and maintain HART and WirelessHART
devices in wide-area SCADA networks.
Combining OpenEnterprise v3.2 with
AMS Device Manager allows asset owners
to extend the reach of their predictive
maintenance capability to remote assets,
providing a powerful and proactive method
of diagnosing potential problems remotely,
Emerson reports. The company says this
reduces trips to the field and unplanned
process shutdowns.
The native interface to AMS Device
Manager enables users to collect wired and
wireless HART digital device data over
low bandwidth wide-area SCADA networks
from Emerson ROC, FloBoss, and ControlWave RTUs without adding the additional

complexity and expense of external HART
multiplexers, Emerson describes. According
to the company, support for AMS Device
Manager SNAP-ON applications, OpenEnterprise SCADA server redundancy, multiple
deployment options, and data collection
for as many as 10,000 HART devices ensure
flexibility and scalability for a wide range
of remote applications.
For information, visit www.emersonprocess.com/openenterprisev3scada. ❒

Coming In March
The Texas Alliance of Energy Producers will hold its 2016 annual meeting and exposition April 19-20 at the
Multipurpose Events Center in Wichita Falls, Tx. See the Official Convention Section in the March issue of
The American Oil & Gas Reporter.
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