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Oil & Gas
Probe Announces New Leadership in Eastern Hemisphere Sales
FORT WORTH, Texas, DECEMBER 20, 2023 – Probe, a leading provider of logging and reservoir monitoring technology for the worldwide oil, gas, and geothermal sectors, announced today the selection of various new leadership additions.
Dominic Dieseru will be the Vice President of Sales for international markets. Based in London, Dieseru brings with him a wealth of experience gained during his distinguished 30-year career at Baker Hughes, where he held various key positions.
In his most recent role at Baker Hughes, Dominic Dieseru served as the Global Sales Director, Wireline, overseeing strategic sales initiatives on a global scale.
Probe is also pleased to announce the appointment of Adnan Eldeeb as the MENA Region Sales Manager. Eldeeb will be joining the esteemed team at Probe Dubai and will be reporting to the Vice President of Sales, Dominic Dieseru. This appointment comes as part of the company’s strategic efforts to strengthen its presence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Eldeeb will be taking over the position from Jim Coghill, who has served as the MENA Region Sales Manager and will be retiring at the end of 2023. Mr. Coghill has made significant contributions to Probe Technologies, and the company extends its deepest gratitude for his years of dedicated service.
Eldeeb brings with him an impressive background of over 20 years in oilfield sales and operations. Most recently, he served as a key figure in leading the Sondex and Baker Hughes wireline product sales in the region over the past decade.
“I’m excited to join Probe’s team of industry experts,” said Eldeeb. “I look forward to contributing to the company’s continued success by strengthening our customer base in the MENA region and delivering superior customer service. Together with the talented team at Probe, I am confident that we will achieve new heights in the industry.”
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About Probe
Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, Probe is widely recognized as an industry leader in cased hole well logging and advanced monitoring technology. Probe designs, manufactures, markets and supports a wide range of tools and systems that provide critical well data for cased-hole formation evaluation, reservoir monitoring, production profiling and well integrity management that are fit for purpose: accurate, reliable and robust. Oilfield service companies, IOCs, NOCs and geothermal companies around the world trust and rely upon Probe to deliver equipment that leads to optimization of their assets.
*Probe and its service marks are registered trademarks of Probe Technologies Holdings, Inc.
Solving Industry Challenges Drives Probe to Innovate and Improve Logging Technologies
New cost-effective solutions provide increased reliability, faster sampling rates and more accurate data
During the past six months, Probe has introduced new patented sensors and tools that dramatically improve data logging efficiency and accuracy.
“We are absolutely driven by market demand for faster, more cost-effective solutions to log accurate data, so we set out to deliver that by innovating traditional logging technologies,” said Federico Casavantes, CEO of Probe. “For example, our new ProMAC™ Series of multi-arm caliper tools are fully combinable with all Probe HD Platform tools, and operate in Surface Readout or Memory modes. There are multiple improvements that increase reliability, maintainability and accuracy. One such improvement, for example, is that the tool’s sensors’ outstanding linearity and stability has allowed us to reduce calibration time to half a day. Consequently, our customers are able to increase asset utilization by minimizing downtime. It also means that electronics and sensors aren’t exposed to high temperatures more than absolutely necessary, reducing the risk of tool failure due to temperature fatigue.”
MAC24™: New Technology Showcase 2019 Winner
Just last month, the MAC24™, which is the first in the ProMAC Series, was selected as a winner in the New Technology Showcase at LAGCOE 2019 in Louisiana. The new MAC24 incorporates innovations in metrology and manufacturing, greatly improving log data quality, accuracy and reliability when logging tubing and casing mineral deposition, corrosion, wear and mechanical deformation. Relying upon a modular constant current sensor design that Probe developed specifically for the ProMAC Series, the tool provides high-stability and accuracy over its full operating temperature range up to 175°C.
The MAC24 calibration process has also been dramatically reduced from days to a few hours.
Designed with the utmost attention to measurement quality, the tool has been proven through extensive engineering and field-testing. At recommended logging speeds of 30 ft per minute (9 meters per minute), MAC24 meets industry standards with a vertical resolution of 0.12” (3mm). Considering future super high-resolution requirements, the tool will also be capable of sampling at up to 100 frames per second achieving a vertical resolution of 0.06” (1.5mm) at current industry-accepted logging speeds.
First XY caliper for geothermal well operations
In September, Probe introduced the UHT Dimension™ XY Caliper, the first XY Caliper Tool designed to operate in ultra-high temperature environments. The tool, which builds upon the Kuster® geothermal logging tool portfolio, performs in hostile environments up to 325°C (617°F) and provides two continuous independent perpendicular measurements (X and Y) of the internal diameter of the casing. It also generates a high-resolution temperature profile of the well via an external fast-response resistance temperature detector (RTD). It is the first caliper tool available to log in ultra-high temperature environments, such as those typically encountered in geothermal well operations.
Assessing well conditions increases efficiency of costly plug & abandonment operations
In other development news, Probe is hard at work on its Multi-String Isolation Logging (MSIL) tool, which offers a unique and cost-effective solution for assessing the isolation behind casing without pulling production tubing from the well. The aim is to provide operators with a ground-breaking technology to evaluate and determine cement bond quality and isolation without pulling the completion, thus greatly increasing the efficiencies and lowering the cost of plug and abandonment operations. By collaborating with a major operator, the tool is progressing on schedule, and has performed successfully in rigorous field trials in the North Sea. Probe plans to continue to collaborate further during 2020 with E&P operators in an extended field trial phase in order to fully prove the technology before going to market.
Probe releases the Multi-String Isolation Logging tool: A Cost-Effective Solution for Plug and Abandonment
For years, the oil and gas industry has looked for a way to assess the isolation between geological intervals without pulling production tubing from the well. Until now, no technology could evaluate and determine cement bond quality and isolation without costly and time-intensive plug and abandonment processes. On May 14, 2019, two members from the Probe team, Jun Zhang and Pouya Mahbod, along with Conoco Phillips’ Randall Shafer, Dan Mueller, and Callum Anderson, introduced the innovative Multi-string Isolation Log (MSIL) at the Society of Petroleum Engineer’s Conference in Bergen, Norway.
Methodology
The MSIL solution introduces a novel methodology and associated logging apparatus to the industry, providing an innovative technology for multi-layer cement bond quality and isolation evaluation. Unlike conventional cement bond logs and ultrasonic imaging logs which require prior removal of production tubing from the wells, MSIL technology evaluates the isolation behind the casing without the need to pull tubing.
Following extensive pre-commercial testing, more than six field trials have been successfully conducted offshore in the southern sector of the North Sea. Side-by-side comparison of conventional independent third party CBLs after production tubing was removed from the well, which also included ultrasonic logs, confirmed and verified MSIL results. These trials demonstrated the applicability of MSIL technology to all typical casing and tubing weight and size combinations.
Accurate Assessment
The accurate assessment of cement bond and isolation conditions in multi-layered configurations not only reduces unnecessary costs, but significantly simplifies the traditional P&A process altogether. While many P&A operations can run as high as $500,000 per day, MSIL technology drastically reduces overall expenditure and ensures the most efficient operation process. It also paves the way in innovation for a wider range of rigless P&A solutions.
A publication about the new MISL technology can be found on the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ OnePetro website by clicking here.
