Oilfield Equipment & Services: research reports

The lifetime of an oilfield – including its surface and downhole infrastructure at production and injection wells – requires a diverse range of equipment and accompanying technical services required to survey oilfields, discover features and leads, and recover oil from drilled prospects. Following exploration activities, requiring equipment for exploration well drilling, additional production wells are drilled and completed with a perforated casing and wellhead tree. Various well intervention procedures during production also require equipment such as pumps, coiled tubing and winches, injection systems, and chemical delivery equipment. Declining production can be counteracted through injection during secondary and tertiary or enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Both recovery stages require injection of liquids (water) and gases, requiring the drilling of additional wells outfitted with injection pumps and blowers. Produced water and processed gases must be treated and possibly reinjected.