Expro Excellence
Well Intervention and Integrity Cased Hole Services
Cut your NPT and wire with the Kinley K2-Cutter
Customer challenges
  • During a rig based well abandonment program, a Slickline toolstring had become stuck in a tubing stump downhole
  • After several hours of jarring, it was decided that recovering the wire in a controlled manner was the safest option versus continuing to jar and risk a wire break at surface or at an unpredicable depth downhole
  • Due the possibility of a cutter falling near the fish, a reliable method of crimping the cutter to the wire for recovery post-cut was required
  • The rig was on Non-Productive Time (NPT) until a solution could be found for the customer
Expro Excellence
  • Expro’s Kinley K2-Cutter was chosen due to the necessity for rapid deployment
  • The Kinley K2-Cutter has no explosives, no hydraulics and no lithium batteries, so it is easily transportable to any location, onshore, offshore or internationally
  • Explosive alternatives would have taken days to mobilize - the K2-Cutter was at the heliport within hours of the call-out
  • Full on-site operational checks were performed including a pre-deployment test cut, with the tool being reset and ready for deployment within minutes
  • The K2-Cutter’s robust crimping mechanism ensures tool recovery with the cut wire
Value to client
  • The K2-Cutter was deployed, a successful cut made at the rope socket and the tool crimped to the wire for recovery to surface
  • The wire was successfully recovered in less than 12 hours from the time the decision was made to stop jarring
  • The abandonment program was subsequently able to continue with minimal NPT
Contact

Cut your NPT and wire with the Kinley K2-Cutter

In Brief
The K2-Cutter was deployed, a successful cut made at the rope socket and the tool crimped to the wire for recovery to surface
Product Line
Well Intervention and Integrity Cased Hole Services
Region
Europe and Sub Saharan Africa
Customer challenges
  • During a rig based well abandonment program, a Slickline toolstring had become stuck in a tubing stump downhole
  • After several hours of jarring, it was decided that recovering the wire in a controlled manner was the safest option versus continuing to jar and risk a wire break at surface or at an unpredicable depth downhole
  • Due the possibility of a cutter falling near the fish, a reliable method of crimping the cutter to the wire for recovery post-cut was required
  • The rig was on Non-Productive Time (NPT) until a solution could be found for the customer
Expro Excellence
  • Expro’s Kinley K2-Cutter was chosen due to the necessity for rapid deployment
  • The Kinley K2-Cutter has no explosives, no hydraulics and no lithium batteries, so it is easily transportable to any location, onshore, offshore or internationally
  • Explosive alternatives would have taken days to mobilize - the K2-Cutter was at the heliport within hours of the call-out
  • Full on-site operational checks were performed including a pre-deployment test cut, with the tool being reset and ready for deployment within minutes
  • The K2-Cutter’s robust crimping mechanism ensures tool recovery with the cut wire
Value to client
  • The K2-Cutter was deployed, a successful cut made at the rope socket and the tool crimped to the wire for recovery to surface
  • The wire was successfully recovered in less than 12 hours from the time the decision was made to stop jarring
  • The abandonment program was subsequently able to continue with minimal NPT
Contact

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