Company:Packers Plus Energy Services

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Packers Plus Energy Services Inc.
TypePrivate
IndustryOilfield Services
Founded2000 (2000)
HeadquartersCalgary, Alberta
Key people
Dan Themig, Peter Krabben, Ken Paltzat, Stuart Wilson
ProductsOpen and cased hole multi-stage completion tools
WebsitePackersPlus.com

Packers Plus Energy Services, Inc. is a privately held, Calgary-based oil and gas service company.[1][2] The company is the innovator of StackFRAC, an open hole multi-stage ball drop completion system.[3] Packers Plus was founded in 2000 by Dan Themig, Ken Paltzat and Peter Krabben.[4] Stuart Wilson is President and CEO of the company.[5] Packers Plus' patent on the StackFRAC system was invalidated by a Canadian Federal Court judge in December 2017. The judge's decision stemmed from his conclusion that the StackFRAC technology was "obvious to skilled persons".[6] Packers Plus has appealed this ruling.[7]

History

In January 2000, Dan Themig, Peter Krabben and Ken Paltzat founded Packers Plus Energy Services, Inc. Eighteen months later, Dan Themig was asked by a Houston-based company to present ideas on how to increase production in a horizontal well.[8][9] Themig sketched a few ideas on a napkin on a flight from Calgary to Houston to present to the customer. The Houston-based company chose what would later become the StackFRAC system.[3][9][10] StackFRAC is an open hole ball drop completion system credited with unlocking unconventional resources once thought to be uneconomical to produce.[3][11] The company is also focused on high pressure/high temperature applications, high pressure retrievables and specialty downhole tools.[3] Packers Plus also created the QuickFRAC batch fracturing system, the SF Cementor stage tool and Titanium XV HPHT system.[12][13][14] In 2015, the Packers Plus ePLUS Retina Monitoring System won the World Oil Best Visualization and Collaboration award.[15] The Retina is designed to detect multi-stage completion system operations and their effects on the reservoir.[16]

Business operations

Packers Plus operates a semi-automated manufacturing centre in Edmonton, Alberta.[17] It features automated assembly robots capable of building upwards of 600 tools per day and automated torque and test cells designed to test tools up to 10,000 psi.[17]

Packers Plus has also built a Rapid Tool Development facility in Edmonton, Alberta which houses its engineering, research and development and testing personnel.[11] In addition, Packers Plus also has a Manufacturing Facility, Rapid Tool Development, Technology Centre and Corporate Office in Houston, Texas.[11] The company has operations in Canada, the U.S. and areas outside North America including the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America.[18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Seale, R, Donaldson, J., Athans, J. (2006). "Multistage Fracturing System: Improving Operational Efficiency and Production". Paper SPE 104557-MS presented at the SPE Eastern Regional Meeting in Canton, Ohio, USA, October 11–13, 2006.
  2. ↑ Seale, R. (2007). "An Efficient Horizontal Open Hole Multi-Stage Fracturing and Completion System". Paper SPE 108712-MS presented at the 2007 SPE International Oil Conference and Exhibition in Veracruz, Mexico, June 27–30, 2007.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 J. Lynn Fraser (January–February 2013). "Lateral Movement". Well Construction Journal. 
  4. ↑ Calgary Herald (February 12, 2014). "Innovation-Groundbreaking innovation in Calgary". The Calgary Herald. 
  5. ↑ "News: Simplicity and Reliability to Stimulations". 15 November 2018. http://packersplus.com/packers-plus-combines-casing-integrity-testing-and-toe-stimulation-into-one-tool-with-the-toe-xt-hydraulic-sleeve/. 
  6. ↑ "Federal Court judge finds Packers Plus fracking technology patent is invalid" (in en-US). Financial Post. 2017-12-08. http://business.financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/federal-court-judge-finds-packers-plus-fracking-technology-patent-is-invalid#comments-area. 
  7. ↑ "Packers Plus files appeal of court ruling that fracking technology patent is invalid | CBC News" (in en-US). CBC. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/packers-plus-appeal-fracking-technology-patent-1.4488749. 
  8. ↑ Williams, P. (2008). "Horizontal Resources". Excerpted from Oil and Gas Investor. Hart Energy Publishing: Houston, TX.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Scott Westin (January 2, 2013). "Private Property". PwC. 
  10. ↑ Stastny, P. (November 2009). "Frac For All". Oil Week.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Jim Bentein (2012). "Leading The Way". Canadian Oilpatch Technology Guidebook 4. 
  12. ↑ "Horizontal Completions". Drilling Contractor. September–October 2013. 
  13. ↑ "A Decade of Innovation". Business in Calgary. May 2010. 
  14. ↑ Polczer, S. [1]. "Packers Plus leads drilling revolution". Calgary Herald. Retrieved November 11, 2009.
  15. ↑ "Winners | WO Awards| World Oil Online". http://www.worldoil.com/events/wo-awards/2015-winners. 
  16. ↑ "ePLUS Retina Monitoring System | Packers Plus" (in en-US). http://packersplus.com/solution/eplus-retina-monitoring-system/. 
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Packers Plus opens Edmonton manufacturing centre". Oilweek. November 2013. 
  18. ↑ "Closure Interview with Paul Higginson, Region Manager Europe, Russia & CIS, Packers Plus". Russian Oil & Gas Technologies. November 27, 2013. 

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