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March 2016 Tube Products International 27
business & market news
Autonomous
ICD technology contract
Tendeka, a provider of completions
systems and services to the upstream
oil and gas industry, has signed a two-
year agreement with SapuraKencana
Energy Peninsula Malaysia Inc (SKE) for
the exclusive application of Tendeka’s
FloSure™ autonomous inflow control
device (AICD) valves. The contract was
awarded through Tendeka’s partner in
Malaysia, Aemos.
The work will include modifying existing
ICD screens to incorporate Tendeka’s
AICD valves on the SKE-operated East
Belumut oil field, located approximately
160 miles offshore Peninsular Malaysia.
Early water or gas breakthrough can
result in lost recovery, lost revenues
and reduced well life. Tendeka’s AICD,
part of the company’s fully integrated
sandface completions solution, self-
adjusts to choke back zones where
unwanted water or gas breakthrough has
occurred to promote oil production. More
than 10,000 FloSure AICD valves have
been installed to date globally in light
and heavy oil wells, ensuring uniform
production longevity and increasing
production rates by up to 50 per cent in
comparison to passive inflow technology.
Gillian King, Tendeka’s vice president of
APAC, commented, “We are delighted
to have been awarded this contract,
our first AICD technology in Malaysia.
Detailed analysis of the field’s reservoir
characteristics indicate it is a perfect
application for our technology and the
modelling shows significant productivity
improvements. This will be the first
deployment of AICD technology within
SKE-operated assets. We look forward
to working with SKE to install this
innovative solution.”
Tendeka – UK
Centravis
enters US
boiler market
Centravis, a supplier of seamless
stainless tubes and pipes, has received
conditional approval from US electric
utility Southern Company for supply
of stainless tubing for pressure part
fabrication. The approval is the result of
analysis of Centravis’s 304H and 316H
steel grades. Conditional approval was
granted on the basis of samples analysis.
The company now plans to ship tubes of
TR304H and TR347H steel grades for the
customer’s current projects, after which
it is expected to receive final approval.
Southern Company, headquartered in
Atlanta, Georgia, USA, is the largest end
user of conventional boiler pipes in the
southern and southeastern United States.
Centravis – Ukraine