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RESMAN to Install Well Monitoring Technology in Skinfaks Field

This summer, two wells at the Skinfaks field in the Gullfaks/Tampen area will be equipped with RESMAN polymer matrix tracer technology. With RESMAN technology, operators can monitor clean-up, production start-up and water breakthrough in all well zones with an affordable, wireless setup. Leading Statoil reservoir engineer for the Tampen area, Lasse Stoltenberg said, “We see a potential for RESMAN’s technology, which we consider more cost effective than alternative technologies, in the Tampen area, and we have placed an order for Skinfaks as the first step.”

In the next 20 years, increasingly more of the world’s oil and gas will be produced from “difficult” wells that, due to their economical marginality or technical complexity, have to be monitored closely to ensure overall profitability. Without the ability to affordably monitor inflow, some of these wells—such as long horizontals, multilaterals, zone-isolated wells and wells in complex geometries—might not even be drilled due to the high risk.

RESMAN is experiencing increasing interest from customers in its low-cost wireless permanent monitoring technology and is currently working on several large projects. CEO Oddvar Solemsli said, “The Skinfaks order is an important milestone in our commercial success. Since its inception in 2005, the company has focused on delivering affordable wireless monitoring and control solutions without wires, batteries or downhole electronics.”