DRC's Founder, Nathan Waldman, Selected as SPE Distinguished Lecturer

The founder of DRC, Nathan Waldman, has been selected as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer for the 2010-2011 program.  Nathan's presentation topic will be Pressure Transient Testing using Well-Head Pressures.  The locations for the 2010-2011 program are not set yet, but please check back next year to see if he will be visiting your local SPE section.  To learn more about the SPE Disginuised Lecturer series please visit the SPE website here.

Updated Free FlowCom Software Download

A new version of our FlowCom software is now available.  Using our free software you can use a USB cable and any PC to communicate with the SPIDR. FlowCom is a full-featured communications tool for viewing real time data, downloading the SPIDR and processing the test data. go to downloads

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DRC's New Online Tool: Web Based Flowcom

In an effort to further assist our customers who have had problems downloading our Flowcom software, we are now offering a web based version.  This software is used to view, edit and make text files of our SPIDR .MK2 files.  To communicate directly with the SPIDR it is still necessary to have Flowcom installed on your computer.  This new web based version can be accessed at the Flowcom Web site. The SPIDR system has been proven on thousands of wells in fields around the world, delivering well analysis data equal to or superior to that provided by downhole testing.

ï WHP to BHP ï Test Analysis ï Tutorials ï Minimum Flow Rate Calculator

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BHP from WHP in a Subsea environment

A major operator in SE Asia with a large offshore gas field is producing dry gas from 6 Subea Wells in relatively shallow water (~ 400 ft.). No Downhole Permanent Pressure gauges (DHPG) were installed or any means for individual well flow measurement. The operator contacted DRC because he was interested in knowing reservoir pressure, skin and permeability for his individual wells from pressure transient testing.

The six wells have been on line and producing large volumes of gas for several years. All wells produce from the same reservoir and are in direct communication with each other over the extent of the field. The wells exhibit extremely high permeability (>1 Darcy) and flow large volumes of gas (50 to 100 MMSCFD). The wells also all tie back to a common subsea header and flow to an offshore production facility where cumulative rate is measured.

The Subsea Wellheads are equipped with wellhead pressure gauges. They are sapphire strain gauges of low resolution (5-10 psi) and the data capture frequency (once per 30 minutes) makes any attempt at Pressure Transient Analysis difficult if not impossible under these ultra high permeability conditions.

DRC / Oceaneering deployed the SubSea SPIDR system via a Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) on one well for the purpose of proving the system. If successful, the SubSea SPIDR would be used for a project later in the year when the field would be shut down for two weeks for installation of compression equipment. read more

About SPIDR

SPIDR is an acronym for Self Powered Intelligent Data Retriever. The SPIDR was developed for pressure transient testing of oil and gas wells without running gauges downhole. The SPIDR system includes software for programming, downloading and ... read more