Baker Hughes secured multiple contract awards from India's ONGC to run wireline services across its fields, the companies said. The awards call for Baker Hughes to deploy up to 46 wireline units and seven drill stem testing kits across ONGC's mature and greenfield developments.
The work will use three Baker Hughes wireline technologies: Proxima advanced logging, RCX MAGNA large-area multi-probe sampling and DeepConnect reservoir-driven perforating charges. The goal is better reservoir understanding, higher production and support for field development.
Offshore and onshore scope
Offshore, the units will support more than 30 shallow-water exploratory and development rigs. Those rigs sit in the Neelam Heera, Mumbai High North, Mumbai High South, Bassein Satellite and Tapti Daman fields. Baker Hughes will also run deepwater exploration work in the Mahanadi, Andaman, Cauvery and KG basins.
Onshore, wireline units will support exploration and development in the Bengal, KG and Assam-Arakan basins.
Baker Hughes will lean on two wireline facilities for maintenance, calibration and testing: Taloja, near Mumbai, and Duliajan, in northeastern India. Both sites back the work across ONGC's operations nationwide.
What the tools do
Wireline logging lowers instruments into a well on a cable to measure rock and fluid properties, data operators use to decide where and how to complete a well. Drill stem testing does something similar before a well is finished, briefly flowing the reservoir to measure pressure and rate. Wireline services sit in the oilfield-services corner of the energy markets, where operators contract out logging equipment and crews on a per-job basis.
