This is a splice of several hours’ worth of real-time video with a camera in the wellbore. It was shot looking down on an oil & gas well equipped with a Vortex downhole wireline retrievable (DX-WR) tool. The video shows the Vortex tool allowing the well to flow below the critical rate as wellas bringing up soap and surfactant previously stuck at the bottom of the well (hence how Vortex downhole tools can use up to 50% less surfactant).
Surface (SX) Tools Promotional Video
This promotional video highlights the value of the Vortex surface tools. It gives a visual representation of the stable, spiraling flow set up by Vortex (as compared to standard turbulent flow) and the application of the tool in wellhead and flowline applications. The video also has graphics of an installation and the reduced pressure results of installed surface tools in the field.
“CBM Forum Introduces Vortex Flow Technology to Operators” in WellHead
Another older report that covers comments from operators on the value of the Vortex tools in coalbed methane and stripper well applications. PDF
“Gas, Liquids Separator” in Oil and Gas Reporter
This is one of the earliest reports on the benefits of the Vortex surface tools. It includes an example of reduced surface-line pressures in the Appalachian basin. PDF
“Local Company Makes Good” in Rocky Mountain Oil Journal
This article was written in response to Vortex Tools winning the 2004 Platts’ Global Energy Newcomer of the Year Award. PDF
Three Articles containing snippets regarding Vortex winning the Platts’ Global Energy Newcomer of the Year Award
“Vortex Flow Technology Finding New Applications” in Rocky Mountain Oil Journal
This article covers Vortex’s downhole testing with Texas A&M and in 25 Rocky Mountain and Mid-Continent oil and gas wells (see pages 4-5). Results of installations with BP and Marathon Oil are included. PDF
These three articles contain snippets regarding Vortex winning the Platts’ Global Energy Newcomer of the Year Award and working with the Stripper Well Consortium.
- “Small Operators Meet the Challenges” in the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council newsletter
– LINK NO LONGER AVAILABLE - “DOE-backed Consortium Delivers Six New ‘Stripper Well’ Technologies” / “Technologies Hold Promise to Boost Domestic Oil and Gas Production” on the U.S. Department of Energy site
– LINK NO LONGER AVAILABLE - “DOE-backed JVs Deliver New Technologies” on Rigzone online LINK
“Special Report: Downhole Technology” in Oil and Gas Journal
Vortex is covered with a number of other deliquification techniques (see page 9). The article mentions Vortex lowering the critical rate by up to 30%. PDF
“Tool Boosts Gas Production” in Journal of Petroleum Technology online
This brief article covers the application of the Vortex downhole (DX) tools in two-phase flow (gas and liquids) along with citing an example of increased gas production with a Vortex installation in the San Juan basin. PDF