UK-based Brinker Technology has reported the latest development in its ambitious growth plans securing an exclusive distribution deal with Alaskan Energy Resources Inc.
The agreement will allow Brinker to expand its global reach into the technically challenging and the lucrative Alaskan market, supplying Platelet Barrier Technology® and Micro-Platelet Plasma® to customers across the region.
The addition of Brinker’s technologies will add well integrity maintenance and management solutions to Alaskan Energy Resources’ impressive portfolio of products and services.
Since 2001, Alaskan Energy Resources has been serving oil companies and drilling contractors throughout Alaska, the North Slope and Cook Inlet, providing customers with a valuable "point of contact" for the crucial services and technologies to meet the challenges of remote Alaskan operations. Products include, drill bits, extended reach drilling services, torque and drag reduction equipment, production enhancement, hole openers and reaming tools.
Recently relocating to a new headquarters in the UK, Brinker also launched its Middle East facility earlier this year and is on track to create four new positions globally by the end of this year.
Kenny McAllister, Brinker’s chief executive officer, said: “We are delighted to announce this agreement with Alaskan Energy Resources. Our technologies have already been deployed successfully in the region and we believe that this partnership will help to secure projects on a number of wells.
“Both Platelets® and Micro-Platelet Plasma® are ideal well integrity solutions for the harsh conditions of Alaska’s Tundra. We challenge traditional well integrity solutions as we do not need a rig, nor do we rely on a heavy equipment footprint, which not only reduces the cost and efficiency of operations, it also has significant environmental benefits.”
Brinker’s Platelet® Barrier technology deploys free-floating discreet particles called Platelets® into a flowing system. The Platelets® are specifically engineered for the size of the leak and the operating conditions of the system. Suspended within an engineered fluid, the Platelets® are pumped downhole, through the wellhead, down the annulus, and on reaching the leak, pressure differential forces entrain them into the defect creating a permanent mechanical seal passing full well integrity testing and certification.
Micro-Platelet Plasma® is used when a dynamic seal is required in wellhead leaks, as well as those in casing, tubing, well valves and connections. Finely engineered micro Platelets® are suspended in a gel carrier medium. Their advanced sealing properties rely on the fact that when a pressure differential is applied across the Plasma®, the micro Platelets® migrate to the leak site where they gather and form a seal, restoring integrity and preventing further fluid egress without negatively affecting the overall integrity of the infrastructure.
Both technologies provide a fully mobile, compact and permanent solution that has the capability to manage integrity issues across an entire field. Carried in a briefcase, so negating the large equipment footprint required by a standard workover, the technology can be deployed anywhere in the world and is virtually risk-free compared to other, rig-based intervention solutions that are complex, expensive and can take months of planning.
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