A UAE oilfield services company on Monday signed an agreement with a British oil firm for the distribution of its products in the country and other Arab nations.
AlMansoori Specialized Engineering, one of the largest oilfield services firms in the region, signed the deal with Camcon Oil, a provider of innovative solutions to the oil and gas industry, at the Adipec oil show in Abu Dhabi.
The three-year agreement will give AlMansoori ‘Group Distribution Partner’ status and the rights to sell, install and support Camcon Oil products throughout the Middle East, they said in a statement.
The countries covered by the agreement are the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Bahrain and Yemen.
AlMansoori will focus its initial activities on Camcon’s new Digital Intelligent Artificial Lift (Dial) solution, Apollo, which provides operators with unprecedented control and precision over gas injection with a minimising of gas usage and a maximising of oil extraction.
“This is a significant milestone for Camcon Oil as we move from product qualification to market acceptance,” Ian Anderson, Camcon’s Chief Operating Officer, said after signing the deal.
“At a time when there is an increased focus throughout the Middle East on bolstering recovery rates, we believe that Apollo is a truly industry-changing product, bringing digital, real-time control to the production process and saving millions in unnecessary shut-downs and well interventions.”
Foroohar Farzadnia, Corporate Marketing and Business Development Director at AlMansoori, said the agreement would allow his company, based in Musaffah industrial zone just outside the capital, to address the needs of its customer base throughout the upstream Middle East oil and gas sector.
“We are subsequently delighted to be partnering with Camcon Oil and forming a key element of their distribution strategy. Apollo is addressing some of the most pertinent issues in the Middle Eastern oil and gas sector today and we look forward to taking the messages of ‘real-time gas injection control’ and ‘deployment without intervention’ to operators.”
Apollo is based on Camcon’s Binary Actuation Technology (BAT) and will enable operators to vary injection rates in real-time without production interruption and well intervention, and generate pressure and temperature information throughout the gas injection process – all features that current artificial gas lift solutions cannot provide.
Trials of the new solution are currently taking place with an oil operator who is providing support and access to its rig and multiphase test facilities, with live well deployment scheduled in the near future.
“Apollo enables operators to access information, such as pressure and temperature measurements within the annulus and the working pipes at the point of gas injection. Apollo is also highly robust, tested to significant operational pressures and is pressure independent,” Camcon said.