SkyVIEW Trucks Increase Safety and Reliability While Reducing Downtime
Nine Energy Service Rolls Out State-of-the-Art Wireline Trucks
HOUSTON (August 27, 2018) - Nine Energy Service, Inc. (NYSE: NINE) a leading oilfield services company that offers completion and production solutions, rolled out new, specially designed wireline trucks, unlike any other in use today. The new trucks, named SkyVIEW, were uniquely engineered to enhance safety and reliability to eliminate downtime and further improve successes in wireline operations. The new trucks will begin initial operations at Nine’s Permian and Northeast locations starting in the third quarter of 2018.
“Wireline trucks haven’t changed much to adapt to the increasing
completion complexity in unconventional shale,” said Ken Preston,
President of US Wireline for Nine Energy Service. “With these new
trucks, we saw an opportunity to improve operations and efficiencies for
our customers and advance the way we convey wireline downhole. What
we’ve done with SkyVIEW is basically brought offshore processes and
technology onshore,” said Preston.
With the new trucks, Nine strives to improve upon its 99% success rate in wireline operations by offering:
- Greater visibility for the operator with windows above and on the sides to increase safety. An open back also allows 90-degree visibility, which is markedly different from traditional Wireline trucks.
- A reengineered logging unit, makes it possible to change the wireline drum out in 20 minutes, allowing for use of different types of cable for varying job requirements.
- The new truck design lowers downtime by offering greater efficiency and true redundancy with an extra drum stored on the truck instead of an offsite shop.
- A separate power pack offers independent hydraulic and generator power that can be used to power the operation in the event of a vehicle failure, or when the operator doesn’t want to draw on the truck’s power. The power pack provides hydraulic pressure and AC/DC power so that downtime is averted.
About Nine Energy Service, Inc.
Nine Energy Service, Inc. is a leading North American onshore completion and production services provider that targets unconventional oil and gas resource development. Nine partners with exploration and production customers across all major onshore basins in both the U.S. and Canada to design and deploy downhole solutions and technology to prepare horizontal, multistage wells for production. Nine is headquartered in Houston, Texas with operating facilities in the Permian, Eagle Ford, MidCon, Barnett, Bakken, Rockies, Marcellus, Utica and throughout Canada.