(46) HOW YOUR TUBULAR STRING PROFILE COMPARES TO SURVEYS AND SOLUTIONS
There is so much data being collected on each well site increasing the success to a company’s maintenance programs. When wellbore surveys identify hole deviations those specific areas can be targeted as potential premature failure points. These critical points down hole are many times
found to be areas where problems initiate causing work over shut downs. Nondestructive testing of tubing while pulling out of hole gives very essential sequential confirmation to the well’s actual deviation situation.
When correlating surveys to tubing profiles wear is an important element needed to analyze excessive rod on tubing wear making data very useful to assist with stroke control, rod guiding, reducing work overs and decreasing well down times. The majority of wells, used tubing is not inspected it’s just pulled and replaced when a well failure occurs. Nondestructive testing tubing in many ways provides valuable well information to know where leaks may have occurred.