CIS to Provide Conductor-Driving Services Offshore Kazakhstan

Conductor Installation Services Ltd (CIS), an Acteon company, announced that it has been awarded a USD multi-million contract by Weatherford Kazakhstan to provide conductor-driving services in Kazakhstan. The contract requires CIS to carry out up to eight conductor-driving operations annually on wells offshore in the Caspian Sea for a number of major operators.

CIS will employ powerful 90 kJ hydraulic hammers to drive the conductors. Two hydraulic hammer spreads, together with drive chasers and drive shoes were delivered to Kazakhstan where they will be based throughout the programme. The first installation operation is scheduled to commence during the next few weeks.

The conductor-driving specialist is supporting the contract from the CIS global headquarters and operations base in Great Yarmouth, England. CIS will carry out the operations with a dedicated team of specialists that will at times be involved in performing two conductor installation operations simultaneously.

“With our ongoing efforts to further strengthen our market position, and expand CIS’s hammer services market globally, we are extremely pleased to be delivering these services for Weatherford in Kazakhstan,” said Andy Penman, Group Managing Director of CIS. “I attribute Weatherford’s decision to retain us - once again - to the benefits they have realised as a result of operations we have completed on their behalf, including cost-savings, reliability, efficiency and sensitivity to the environment,” he added.

The two-year contract, which features two one-year options to renew, represents the first time that CIS will have worked on behalf of Weatherford in Kazakhstan, although the company has been working in the region since 2005. Over time, CIS has successfully completed numerous conductor installation operations around the world for Weatherford International. Currently, CIS is working on behalf of Weatherford in Colombia, Nigeria, Gabon, Brunei, Malaysia and Romania, among others.

CIS is a member of Acteon’s Conductors, Risers and Flowlines group of companies