Tulsa’s Catoosa Test Facility has added another test well, its 16th in carrying out research for oil and gas companies.
The firm announced it added test well #16 known as “Thunderbird 7″ which has 10-3/4” surface casing down to 751 feet. The well is used to test and validate advanced drilling technologies before they are released to the public..
Catoosa Test Facility tests prototype tools of any type downhole in cased wells and open borehole. The company also added a third testing rig to its test campus in Jennings. Nabors Industries furnished one of its high-quality Cyber drilling units under a long-term arrangement for research and development activities related to drilling operations.
This new rig is an all-electric A/C top drive intelligent triple rig that is up fitted with the latest technologies for testing purposes. It is a walking rig that sets on a 9 test well cellar, fully concreted pad, and is designed to be the keystone of the testing campus.
Catoosa Test Facility is commercially available to technology focused oilfield companies for drilling test wells wherein new or existing drilling equipment, tools or techniques can be tested under various actual drilling conditions in a low-risk, cost-effective, confidential and independent environment.
Located between Stillwater and Tulsa, Oklahoma, CTF offers three drilling rigs capable of moving quickly between test wells offering both cased and open hole design.