EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION
Next Generation Intervention
Oil and Gas Innovation interviews Sigmund Sevatdal, of Icon Instruments AS to talk a bit about their well
intervention solutions, the work the have been doing with Equinor, and much more. We delve deeper into
this fascinating company’s story and their solutions below.
OGI: Could you start by explaining ICON
Instruments AS’ credentials and experience
in terms of your products and services for the
oil and gas sector? Could you tell our readers
the breadth of your experience, how long the
company has been active, and its reach?
Icon: Icon instruments are focusing on wireless
monitoring for downhole and wellhead
applications as well as complimentary products
to be able to make well intervention work in
a safer and more cost efficient manner. The
company has been spending the last couple
of years investing in R&D in order to develop
a series of products that will be commercially
available to the marked now and some additional
new products and improved versions will also
be made available in the years to come.
Top left: iTP
Bottom Left: iBP
Right: iWH+iTP+iBP
OGI: Can you talk a bit about your work in well
monitoring instrumentation?
Icon: Icon instruments has found financial help
from Equinor as part of their loop program in
order to develop the Instrumented Tubular
Plug. There has been great interest for a solution
that could enable the operators to monitor
enclosed well volumes for multiple different
intervention applications. Icon Instruments uses
the competence in acoustic data transmission
and interpretation in order to be able have
wireless monitoring with through tubing
communication.
OGI: What solutions do you offer to the offshore
industry?
Icon: The iTP (instrumented tubular plug) is an
instrument that provides the means for wireless
monitoring below any kind of barrier plug. The
instrument can monitor Pressure, Temperature,
trapped fluid composition as well as ingress rate
and volume.
It provides real-time wireless monitoring
using the well tubing/casing as means of
communication path.
The iBP (instrumented barrier plug) is an
instrumented barrier utilized for annulus
pressure and temperature monitoring for
dry wellhead applications while at the same
time providing two full metal non-penetrated
barriers. The iBP is fully compliant with API,
DNV and NORSOK standards and the system
is qualified to API 6FB part II for offshore well
bay conditions. The design of the iBP is designed
to simplify the operations offshore making a
replacement easy without the need for replacing
the VR plug in case of replacement or
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calibration.
The iWH (Integrated wireline head) is a
light weight compact fully enclosed spooling
device for shallow well intervention. The iWH
is estimated to have a weight of less than 2
tons and can be used for setting and retrieval
of shallow set plug down to 150-500m. The
plan is to qualify this product for use both for
dry and subsea applications.
OGI: Could you talk about your offshore
solutions such as coiled tubing to downhole
instrumentation?
Icon: The iTP could be utilized for enhanced
safety and efficiency in many different
application scenarios. Some of the applications
that are being evaluated are monitoring during
Christmas tree maintenance and change outs.
Monitoring during reiserless slot recovery
operations. Monitoring below enclosed well
volumes for P&A operations. Monitoring
during perforation enabling to get leak off
test data and perforation pressure profiling to
evaluate the perforation job.
OGI: Do you have health and safety related
solutions, and if so, could you talk about that
a bit?
Icon: The downhole monitoring provides
means of barrier verification. The application
of the iTP makes it possible ensure that
the well intervention work is done is a safe
manner reducing the HSE associated risk
associated with the operation. Also being able
to complete the work in less time and with less
people involved. The continuous monitoring
also increases the safety aspect since it gives
the operator continuous verification that
the well integrity is intact during the well
operations.
OGI: Finally, could you enlighten our readers
of a case study where you helped a client with
your solutions?
Icon: There are multiple different applications
where monitoring is critical for well
intervention work. Currently different
clients are planning to utilize the iTP for
some different applications where the first
utilizations in the North Sea are scheduled
for Q4 2019. One of the objectives is to make
it possible for the operators to have barrier
verification, which in consequence enables the
operator to re-think the intervention sequence
making in order to increase safety, efficiency
and cost for the operation.
OGI: Thank you for your time. •
ICON Instruments AS
Web: www.iconinstruments.no
E-mail: [email protected]