The shift to drilling horizontal laterals, especially in shale oil and gas plays in the US, has led companies often to use coiled tubing units for well completion and intervention work, concludes a ...

Coiled tubing provides the means to work in live wells, allowing wellbore clean-outs, openhole-formation washes, selective-matrix stimulation, production logs, and nitrogen-kickoff jobs. Until ...

Tubing has been a vital component of down-hole activity for several decades, as one of the main means of carrying out intervention operations from reservoir assessment, exploration well drilling and ...