Enabling High-Quality Imaging in Demanding Offshore Wells

Halliburton’s StrataXaminer tool pushes the limits of borehole imaging technology — but as with many wireline imaging tools, it is vulnerable to poor centralization and stick-slip in open hole. Working closely with Halliburton’s engineering team, Petromac designed a roller-based centralizer system — the first of its kind for open-hole deployments. The system from its very first deployment, successfully delivered high-resolution images with no stick-slip in the high stakes environment of deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

Following this success, the technology has been adapted and deployed with other high-resolution tools, including sonic imagers in the Asia-Pacific region.