RESMAN has successfully installed its first full scale pilot in a producing oil well at the Urd development offshore Norway. This is the world's first permanent well monitoring system based on wireless, chemically "intelligent" technology.
RESMAN's technology is utilized to monitor water breaktrough in the Urd well and preliminary reults during well wash-out provided an early indication of success. Says Sigurd Hunsnes at Statoil, "We have chosen to test this technology at Urd because we believe it is a very useful tool for the future." In this case RESMAN's tracers are placed permanently in sand screens along the production zone without any reduction in the oil production. Says Fridtjof Nyhavn at RESMAN, "It would be immoral for us to wish for water in Urd's wells, but we are confident that when the day comes, our system will work and tell the operator exactly where water breakthrough has occured."