Expro Well Testing in Bentley field
At the Bentley Field east of the Shetlands, Expro will provide heavy oil well testing and data management services through drilling and completions company ADTI on the Rowan Norway jack-up rig. The contract, valued at about USD12m (GBP8m), will support Xcite Energy’s 90 day extended well test at the field, said to contain 116 million barrels of proven and probable reserves.
Expro has provided extended well testing services in the North Sea and internationally since 1983 and is recognised as a global leader in the delivery of fast track production facilities. Gary Belcher, Expro’s President of testing & production, said: “We are very pleased to be working with Xcite Energy and ADTI as part of the Bentley development project.
“Our portfolio of services allows us to support our customers across the entire life cycle of their well through exploration, appraisal, development, production and the eventual abandonment. With an increasing demand and depleting reserves, development and restructuring of marginal and mature fields will continue to be key for our clients. Expro’s operational competence, extensive equipment inventory and in-house engineering capability coupled with a proven track record of facilities design and delivery provides our customers with the ability to secure new or incremental production safely, quickly and economically.
“This early production or extended well test provides further data to accurately model the potential of their reservoir whilst delivering early cashflow and allowing optimisation of any permanent facility designs.”