Sand jet impact technology has been used in different sectors of industry for relatively long period of time. In oil and gas sector, despite theoretical publications made by Soviet and then Russian scientists especially in the foreign trade press, real life application of this technology has started just recently. First of all this is attributed to the recent achievements in metallurgy that allowed producing quite strong materials to be used during sand jet operations in oil and gas wells. Moreover, over the recent years new software products have been developed allowing building models, optimizing performance and predicting the results of such works.

ISOJET technology developed and introduced by Trican Well Service Ltd is based on continuous operation of the coiled tubing fleet that, besides its main work on well completion and bottomhole cleaning, also performs sand jet perforation, and hydraulic fracturing fleet that performs reservoir hydraulic fracturing without limitations in terms of proppant weight and other complicating factors.

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