Monday, June 8, 2015

Canada:

Canadian Company Recognized as Innovator in High Temperature & Geothermal Completions (The Street)

E&P magazine has presented the winners of the prestigious 2015 Special Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation. Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. of Calgary, Alberta, Canada was recognized for its Inferno system - an extreme high temperature completion solution, as the 2015 recipient of the E&P Special Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation.

From their website, Packers Plus explained the innovation: "A leading Australian geothermal company needed extreme high temperature completion tools to repair one of their injection wells in the deep granite formations of the Cooper Basin. These formations are some of the hottest anywhere in the world making them ideal for development of a large-scale geothermal electricity project. The challenge they brought to Packers Plus was to design completion tools capable of withstanding 600°F and 10,000 psi.

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