Archer Well Services and Raptor combine efforts to create a world class global barrier verification business of scale
Nicholas Pantin, Executive Vice President Well Services, Archer Well Services. Image Credit: Archer Well Services
Archer Well Services has secured a global exclusive license agreement with Raptor Data Limited (Raptor), enhancing its well integrity & plugging and abandonment (P&A) offerings with innovative technology. This partnership integrates Raptor's advanced wireless acoustic telemetry technologies into Archer Well Services’ well integrity portfolio, significantly improving monitoring capabilities.
Raptor is a UK-headquartered company dedicated to research, design, engineering and manufacture of downhole tools for plug and abandonment. Raptor's proprietary wireless acoustic telemetry technology is a leader in the market for plug and barrier validation and verification ("V&V") and associated workflows for confirming wellbore barrier quality and integrity.
Nicholas Pantin, EVP of Archer Well Services comments: “Raptor has developed a state-of-the-art downhole acoustic monitoring tool that, with its wireless data broadcasting capabilities, will expand Archer Well Services solutions in the temporary and permanent plug and barriers V&V market, including data transmission of downhole pressure and temperature broadcasted via a wireless acoustic telemetry from below the barrier. This demonstrates Archer’s major commitment to continue improving and managing the placement of reliable well barriers.”
Paul McClure, CEO of Raptor Data Limited UK says: “I am delighted to announce our partnership with Archer Well Services. Together we complete the strongest offering for well decommissioning in the global market and this positions both companies as leaders of well P&A with a unique set of solutions and workflows for plug and barrier V&V. A combined Archer Well Services – Raptor Data in this space provides unparalleled resources and a technically differentiated global platform to build a scalable high impact business at the cutting edge of technology.”
Paul McClure, CEO, Raptor Data. Image credit: Raptor Data Limited
About Raptor Data Limited
Raptor was founded by Dr. Colin Maclean (CTO) and Gordon Cowie (CAO) in 2011. Headquartered in Aberdeen and led by Paul McClure (CEO), Raptor now has 12 employees. At the forefront of in-well acoustics, communications, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, Raptor has developed disruptive technology that is set to change the plug and abandonment (P&A) and decommissioning landscape as we know it. Its acoustic telemetry system, Pathfinder, is proven for use with bismuth, cement, and mechanical plugging methods.
In addition to wellbore pressure and temperature measurements, Pathfinder analyses acoustic signals and operational noise to interpret and finger-print events. Raptor then uses AI and ML alongside a digital twin to diagnose in-well events allowing the system to verify the quality and integrity of the plug before completing the operation.
The combination of in-well measurements, acoustic signals, operational noise, AI and ML allows the technology to be used for a broad range of measurements and applications including drilling efficiency, completion installations, sand production, fluid phases, water influx and many other acoustic in-well features.
