Well services is a department within a
petroleum production company through which matters concerning existing
wells
Wells most commonly refers to:
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* Well, an excavation or structure created in the ground
* Wells (name)
Wells may also refer to:
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England
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are handled. Having a shared well services department for all (or at least multiple) assets operated by a company is seen as advantageous as it allows the pooling of talent, experience and resources for managing wells.
The term may sometimes be used to encompass the larger section of the
industry
Industry may refer to:
Economics
* Industry (economics), a generally categorized branch of economic activity
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responsible for wells including the
supplier companies as well the operating company's wells department.
Remit
A well is initially drilled and completed under the control of the drilling and completions department operating under the request of the asset. Once the well is completed, control is transferred to the asset's production team, who will operate the well as appropriate for their purposes. Should any issues of well integrity or any requirement for
well work
A well intervention, or well work, is any operation carried out on an oil or gas well during, or at the end of, its productive life that alters the state of the well or well geometry, provides well diagnostics, or manages the production of the wel ...
arise, the asset will refer the issue to the well services. During interventions, control of affected well is handed over from production to the well services crew at the well site, a practical action involving transferring control lines from the production control panel to the well services control panel.
Structure
Offshore/Well site
When
well work
A well intervention, or well work, is any operation carried out on an oil or gas well during, or at the end of, its productive life that alters the state of the well or well geometry, provides well diagnostics, or manages the production of the wel ...
is required, it is the responsibility of the Well Operations Engineer (
WOE) to assemble the team and arrange their dispatch to the well site. The team will consist of a well services supervisor and other operators. The well services supervisor is a dedicated worker who is sent to oversee well services operations at well sites and take responsibility for all well services personnel. At offshore sites, there will commonly be two, to cover both day shift and night shift. The other operators will usually consist of personnel from
supplier companies, who are trained in the relevant field, such as
wireline,
coiled tubing
In the oil and gas industries, coiled tubing refers to a very long metal pipe, normally in diameter which is supplied spooled on a large reel. It is used for interventions in oil and gas wells and sometimes as production tubing in depleted g ...
,
wellhead
A wellhead is the component at the surface of an oil or gas well that provides the structural and pressure-containing interface for the drilling and production equipment.
The primary purpose of a wellhead is to provide the suspension point and ...
maintenance, etc.
See also
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Well intervention
A well intervention, or well work, is any operation carried out on an oil or gas well during, or at the end of, its productive life that alters the state of the well or well geometry, provides well diagnostics, or manages the production of the wel ...
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List of oilfield service companies
This is a list of oilfield service companies – notable companies that provide services to the petroleum exploration and petroleum production, production industry but do not typically produce petroleum. In the list, notable subsidiary companies an ...
External links
Well services jobs
Oil wells
Petroleum production