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With the new system, operators can adjust artificial lift conditions without intervention and with no need for wireline and slick line.

Apollo also allows operators access to real time information, such as pressure and temperature measurements, from within the annulus and the working pipe at the point of gas injection.

The portfolio of products uses a digital valve technology, based on this firm's patented, ultralow energy binary actuation technology. Apollo enables operators to vary injection rates in real time without production interruption and well intervention, and generate pressure and temperature information throughout the gas injection process.

The company says its system provides accurate gas injection control and flexibility from a single asset through a series of digitally operated valves, enabling the real-time setting of injection rates. Patented actuators use low power to switch and are multiplexed, keeping cabling requirements to the surface to a minimum and all control signals at low voltage.

Source: Camcon Oil, Button End Industrial Estate, Harston, Cambridge CB22 7GX, UK.

Keralon-B, a new brushable, biodegradable, oil-based lubricant-coating-paint is designed for use from ambient to 1,000o C. Its lubrication is based on dual types of components, both organic and inorganic ingredients: the organic being a high-flashpoint methylated seed oil and the inorganic being a ceramic mixture of chemically inert lubricating phases—boron nitride, graphite, and titanium dioxide.