Highlights
Benefits
- Mitigates risk throughout the critical well lifecycle
- Delivers quality and order execution with checkpoints throughout the process
- Helps ensure greater lift system reliability and uptime to minimize intervention costs
Applications
- Offshore wells – both subsea and dry trees
- Deepwater fields
- Midstream and CCUS operations requiring uninterrupted uptime
- Operations with a risk of high intervention costs and significant revenue losses due to deferred production
- Operations using AccessESP™ retrievable ESP system
Overview
As production operations continue moving into more technically complex and remote locations, reliability and uptime are critical. For critical applications, the costs and risks of an unplanned well intervention are too high for anything other than the highest-quality artificial lift systems.
The PRIMERA™ premium artificial lift service offers a holistic, process-driven service to help mitigate risk and maximize economics throughout the lifecycle of your most critical producing asset. The PRIMERA service was designed explicitly for assets where the costs of deferred production, nonproductive time, and intervention complexity are too high to be left to chance.
Improve production and reliability with systems-based focus
Off-the-shelf lift systems rarely deliver the quality that a critical production application needs. That’s why the PRIMERA service uses a systems-focused approach to engineer every artificial lift system for each well, throughout its entire lifecycle. This approach helps optimize lift performance and field reliability through engineering and application reviews, including criticality assessments, checkpoint reviews, and a final engineering system design review. Systems testing in our state-of-the-art Artificial Lift Research and Technology Center (ALRTC) ensures system quality and performance before field deployment.
Ensure superior quality from initial design to finished product
Delivering a lift system with the highest reliability requires ensuring superior quality at each step of the manufacturing process—from raw material selection to assembly and final testing of the complete system. The PRIMERA service delivers high-quality lift systems matched to a specific well’s requirements. Our three-tiered approach to system manufacturing efficiently manages risk by ensuring that you receive the right technical solution with predictable product deliveries.
The PRIMERA service’s certified assemblers, technicians, and engineers bring decades of practical, hands-on design, quality assurance, and testing experience to help ensure the highest and most consistent system quality.
Get individualized high-level support with customized, concierge-level service
The PRIMERA service includes a full concierge service. This curated, “high-touch” experience guides you through the project planning, scheduling, execution, and system qualification processes to ensure that a customized lift solution is delivered on time and at the desired quality. Our project managers ensure that each step of the process—from initial project scoping and plan development to project execution and final system delivery—is executed efficiently and in line with your expectations.
The concierge service provides each customer with a premium viewing experience from dedicated “aquarium” rooms. These rooms provide a comfortable, private place to observe the testing of your lift systems.
Confirm system quality with enhanced customer-focused testing
Covering a total floor space of 82,650 ft2 (7,678 m2) and powered by a dedicated 20-MW substation, our ALRTC testing facility helps ensure high-quality service, delivery, and ongoing support with a full range of engineering and testing services. Our facility’s testing capabilities include:
- Motor dyno tests, which verify motor performance at desired load conditions
- Six vertical water wells, with an 855-ft maximum depth and 85-ft hook height, for performing system stack-up tests beyond ESP equipment, ensuring flawless installation of critical completions in the field
- Test loops integrated into vertical wells, for measuring ESP performance at various flow rates and pressures simulating actual operational conditions that may be experienced in the field
- Enhanced gauging system with accelerometers for continuous monitoring of vibration in multiple locations of ESP equipment during system testing
- Customer VSD compatibility testing, which confirms an ESP’s ability to seamlessly connect and operate using existing VSD inputs and commands
- Cable simulation system and capability to fit project specific VSDs, to perform an entire ESP system integration test from downhole to topside
Contact your Baker Hughes representative today to learn how the PRIMERA premium artificial lift service can deliver the quality and reliability you demand for your most critical applications.