International oilfield services company Expro won the Innovator Award at this year’s SPE Offshore Achievement Awards for its pioneering Wireless Well Solutions technology. The award, which was presented on 12 March at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Aberdeen, recognises Expro’s excellence in technological innovation within the offshore energy sector.
The judges commended Expro’s Cableless Telemetry System (CaTS) – an in-well wireless communications technology, and Advanced Reservoir Testing™ (ART) – a special application of CaTS that is being used to reduce reservoir uncertainty during field appraisal and development planning. By enabling well testing to continue beyond well abandonment, this technology is providing high value data at low incremental well cost. Expro is the first, and presently the only, company able to monitor the bottom-hole pressure and temperature in a permanently abandoned subsea well wirelessly. Brian Champion, Global Sales Director for Wireless Well Solutions, comments: “A combination of both innovative thinking and expertise in digital signal processing and harsh environment electronics design has been critical to our success, and the entire team is extremely proud to be recognised with this prestigious award. This achievement reinforces our commitment to pioneering unique wireless monitoring and control solutions for the offshore energy sector.”
