Halliburton Indonesia bags 3-year contract from Caltex

Halliburton's Indonesia subsidiary has been awarded a three-year contract to supply its OptoLog? DTS - Fiber Optic distributed temperature monitoring system utilizing the proprietary FiberTube? and fiber pushed down system technology on PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia's (CPI)Duri Steamflood project, the US energy services company said in a release Thursday.

In Duri steamflood producing wells, said Halliburton, it is not possible to run conventional temperature logs without incurring high cost workovers due to the complexity of the completion design. In addition, the OptoLog DTS technology delivers a distributed temperature measurement that cannot be obtained with a conventional temperature log.

"Halliburton's OptoLog DTS, FiberTube and fiber pushed down system technology provides a proven solution for collection of dynamic real-time distributed temperature sensing data," said the company.

"The OptoLog DTS technology allows Caltex to improve management of their steamflood reservoir by using the data as part of its heat management plan. In addition to applications in a steamflood reservoir, the DTS technology can also be used for downhole flow profiling, completion integrity monitoring and artificial lift optimization."

CPI, which operates several oilfileds in Central Sumatra is Indonesia's top crude producer, pumping some 500,000 BPD of crude. (alex)