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Innovative Results
North America
Our work in the Cascade and Chinook
fi elds in the Gulf of Mexico’s Lower
Tertiary trend is an excellent example
of our ultra-deepwater leadership.
We have been closely involved in the development
of both fi elds since their inception, providing a wide
range of directional drilling, evaluation, completions,
and intervention services. In late 2013, we set a
record in the Cascade fi eld by installing the world’s
fi rst intelligent well system (IWS) with a modifi ed
multizone, single-trip (MST) completion system in a
water depth of 8,211 feet (2503 meters). The system
was also the fi rst high-pressure IWS in the Gulf of
Mexico. It saved the operator millions of dollars,
proving its value, not only for the remainder of
the Chinook / Cascade project, but also as a key
enabler of operating effi ciencies and savings in
future ultra-deepwater and high-pressure/high-
temperature applications.
Extreme pressure and temperature combinations
present an extreme challenge to ultra-deepwater
operations. Baker Hughes and a major international
oil company entered into a long-term research and
development collaboration agreement in 2013 to
develop completion technologies that will withstand
temperatures approaching 500˚F (260˚C) and
pressures of 30,000 psi (207 MPa) for very long
periods of time. The fi rst phase of the project
involves identifying product designs, metallurgies,
and sealing technologies that will withstand these
conditions throughout a projected life span of
30 years.
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