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Offshore Completions

Nabors offers conventional and proprietary tubular running services for running production tubulars with or without control lines.

Conventional Tubular Running Services

  • Available on tension leg platforms, inland barges, jack-up rigs and floaters
  • Components of a package include the following services to be performed:
    • Hydraulic Pusher Arm System
    • Non-Marking Corrosion Resistant Alloys (CRA)
    • Weight Compensator
    • Torque Turn Monitoring

Proprietary Tubular Running Services

  • Available on tension leg platforms, jack-up rigs, floaters and drill ships
  • Components of the package include the following services to be performed:
    • MCLRS 6’ Scoping Unit
      Or
    • A-Frame System (Automated) with conventional elevators hydraulic compensator & ECDS System
    • Weight Compensator
    • Automated Cart System
    • Torque Turn Monitoring

A-Frame System

Design and Features:
  • Provides our customers with a single system to automatically manipulate the tong while having the ability to assist with placing the control line against the pipe
  • One-lift system with a simple and efficient rig-up/rig-down process that takes less than an hour
  • Accepts control lines from vertical or horizontal entry points
  • Eliminates working from heights
  • Can be used with a back-saver slip assembly or Flush Mount System with minimal modifications
  • Can be used with landing string and umbilicals
  • Designed for completion operations from a single zone to multi-zones

Control Line Pusher Arm

Design and Features:
  • Compact version of the A-Frame System, consisting of the cart, slips and pusher arm
  • Pushes the control lines to the pipe to secure control lines to pipe with clamps
  • Available for use at a 45° or 90° angle from the well center
  • Eliminates working from heights

Scoping MCLRS™

Design and Features:
  • Eliminates control lines in the tong area from overhead sheaves and running through slips
  • Simple and efficient rig-up/rig-down process that requires only three lifts and can be done in two and a half hours or less
  • Standard components make the MCLRS unit portable and versatile enough to fit most rigs
  • Guides can be positioned so that control line clamping can be performed from up to four sides 90° apart from each other
  • Efficiency is optimized as the tongs are operated remotely on the top platform
  • The unit’s small footprint maximizes rig floor space to increase efficiency of tubing running operations

Package Accessories

Automated Gravel Pack Cart System
  • Used on both conventional and proprietary packages
  • Allows personnel to move the tong forward, backward, up and down without hanging from a rig tugger line
  • Hands-free application means less personnel in the well center space
  • Eliminates pinch points
Gear Cart (Automated Tong Handler)
  • Adaptable enough to fit any IR Track system or rig or tong system
  • No rig tugger line required to hoist tongs up or down
  • Decreases the risk of hand injury
  • Can operate with the Remote System Belly Pack
  • Eliminates the Telescoping Arm
  • Utilizes dual activity rig building stands of tubulars
  • Can be used on the Main Rotary
  • Available sizes:
    • 22” XHT 100K Tong with BU
    • 14” DP 100K Tong with BU
    • 8-⅝” DP 85K Tong with BU
    • 5-½” UHT with integral backup
Remote System Belly Pack Electric/Hydraulic
  • Reduces personnel around the Main Rotary, also reducing hand placement and pinch points
  • Provides a built-in ESD switch
  • Adaptable to all automated offshore systems (A-Frame, Gravel Pack Cart, Sliding Slip, etc.)
  • Utilizes a key for powering on/off
  • Employs secondary retention before allowing function of rotary slips
  • Provides operator with better mobility around the rig floor for clear line of sight

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