Calgary, Carnduff – Rangeview Thru Tubing Tools and Services Inc. announced on Sept. 27 that the company has entered into an agreement with Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), providing Rangeview with access to state-of-the-art equipment in the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the company said in a release. This includes what they referred to as best-in-class permanent, inflatable, straddle and retrievable packers; permanent, drillable and retrievable bridge plugs; as well as other completions, workover and remediation equipment.
Mike Cullen, vice president of sales and marketing, said on Oct. 1, “They’re providing us with their tools.”
“They’ll be our supply chain for those tools.”
The Baker Hughes tools will be complimentary to Rangeview’s existing suite of tools, as they will continue to provide their full thru tubing line of tools and services.
The company’s specific area of expertise is “thru tubing” services, which allow downhole procedures, operations and repairs to be conducted within the production casing of the well. “We can work in a cased wellbore,” Cullen said. That includes working with jointed pipe on a service rig, or on a coil tubing unit. Most of their work is in cased hole.
Cullen said they’re fairly closely tied to the drill bit, as much of their work is related to completions. But They also do a lot of remedial work, like sand cleanouts, dewaxing and descaling as examples.
“The more wells are drilled, the more work there is,” he said.
Rangeview was founded in 2008 in Carnduff, Saskatchewan, is an independently owned Canadian service provider. It is now headquartered in Calgary, with operations in Carnduff, Red Deer and Grand Prairie. They have three people working in southeast Saskatchewan/southwest Manitoba. The company has about 20 people overall, but also hired contractors as needed.
