Expro aiming to build on flaring, well test advances

Oct. 13, 2022

Expro has issued details of two of its developments that secured funding earlier this week from the Aberdeen-based Net Zero Technology Centre, under its 2022 Open Innovation Program.

Expro was recently approached by Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) to support in designing a two-well cleanup campaign with zero flaring of hydrocarbons, as part of a greater objective of reducing GHG emissions during well operations. The overall efficiency achieved for BSP was an estimated avoidance of 3,731 tonnes of CO2e emissions during well cleanup operations on the two wells.

Offshore staff

HOUSTON —Expro has issued details of two of its developments that secured funding earlier this week from the Aberdeen-based Net Zero Technology Centre, under its 2022 Open Innovation Program.

Both Expro projects fall under the Venting and Flaring category, and they cover real-time flare emissions measurement and control as well as a solution that allows well testing without the need for flaring.

The company recently helped a client in the Middle East reduce gas flaring and optimize production at 10 sites, performing a study into an economic alternative to flaring.

Its solution was to use gas-to-power compressors, which were delivered, installed and commissioned in 32 weeks, resulting in a reduction of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions by up to 10,000 metric tons of CO₂e per day.

Use of the compressors also cut opex, Expro said, while optimizing production and extending field life.

In the Asia-Pacific region, the company executed a two-well cleanup campaign, designing and supplying a well test process that saved an estimated 4,000 metric tons of CO₂e emissions during cleanup operations.

10.13.2022