I have taken part in almost all of the conferences – from the 2nd to the 11th. Every new conference was even more interesting and informative than the previous one. Each of them is a true event with joyful meetings and familiar faces all around. After being in contact for ten years, the colleagues become friends. Although you probably meet with them only once a year at a conference like that, you always keep in touch. We can see a club of people sharing the same views, with the list of members exceeding that of the conference participants.

Both at the last and this conference I spoke about our capabilities and shared our plans with the audience. In future I am also ready to discuss our technological achievements at the conference, as well as make them available for our clients. 

 

The organization level of the conference is very high. Informative reports were presented by servicemen, equipment producers, scientists developing CT technologies. The symbiosis of the two areas – scientific and practical – has an effect that is beneficial for the whole CT industry. For us, drilling specialists, coiled tubing is still a new, young area, but it is already covered with seashells. Those are scientific, practical and technological seashells. Equipment and technological development in this area will become more and more intensive. Coiled tubing has a great future ahead of it!

 

 

The 11th conference was a very well organized event. I have got a lot of useful information. At the preceding conferences we managed to establish close relations with some companies. Subsequently, we signed contracts to supply them with our tools. Thanks to the information that we received at our previous meetings we designed new units of equipment that have been successfully introduced into production and make a fair share of the tools produced by our enterprise. Thus, the conference has given us the necessary contacts and has helped us define the product range. 

 

 

I think these events, no matter where they are held in the world, are important for geographic area that is brought into focus. It’s a means of gathering the operators and service providers to discuss current problems and challenges, and to arrive to some sort of a conclusion to solve those problems so that everybody wins. One of the things I was impressed with at the 11th International Scientific and Practical Coiled Tubing and Well Intervention Conference was the participation of considerable amount of oil companies' representatives. Without them we lose it, we’re just talking to each other. 

 

 

It is the first time that I take part in the conference, but I read the Coiled Tubing Times Journal. I have come here to get the information about the new coiled tubing technologies. At present we conduct acid treatment, swabbing and bottom-hole cleaning operations. After CT is used gas well capacity can increase by 40–70 %. We can work with “dead” or abandoned wells. We can handle 1–2 wells each month. We are ready to master new technologies. Hopefully the conference will help us do that. I only hope we will not have to fully re-equip!

 

 

The conference is very well organized. It is a little sad that the companies are not open enough to share experience and details of the unique operations. It means that the most important information is very often left out behind the presentation slides. But the conference format allows for those interested in the details get them in the informal conversations and for those who have no questions disregard the details altogether. 

 

 

This conference conforms very much to what ICoTA and other conferences do in North America. My main point is that it has been a fantastic conference, I’ve got a lot of good information; I see the Russian oil industry as part of the rest of the world, so I think it’s an excellent forum. It seems to me that more people attend this time instead of last time also.

 

We had a good discussion at the course. I think we also should spend more time on the practical point of view, for example to CT management, repair and maintenance and how to get more life from your tubing, and consider more practical experience and cases of corrosion and what was done to help to medicate that. 

 

 

The atmosphere at the conference is very favourable for communication and exchange of opinions. There are lots of high-skilled professionals present. The level of both the speakers and the Short Course is very high. As a representative of an oil production company, I am looking here for the objective information on the modern technologies that could be offered by the contractors in the market. Furthermore, the conference sheds light not only on the well-known standard operations but also the new techniques for down-hole treatment. I would also like to thank the organizers for conducting the Short Course. We will always be happy to attend!

 

 

It is not my first time as a participant of the conference. I took part in the previous meetings that were conducted in Tyumen. I wish more geophysicists came to such interesting conferences. At the conference you can learn about the latest developments and technologies, establish contacts with the companies that have already adopted them. You can get to know geophysicists and servicemen with whom you would work later on at the oil fields. 

 

D. Zinin, Lab. Сhief for the Drilling and Workover Operations Equipment, Bedstead Group Director, Burenie

 

I found the Short Course very useful. I received a lot of new information from the leading CT unit producer. Hopefully, this knowledge will provide an impetus to the development of the new kinds of downhole equipment. The Short Course can be noted for the live communication when almost the whole audience took part in the discussions, and very often you could get an answer to your question from a knowledgeable somebody sitting next to you quicker than you would from the speaker himself. One of our company’s lines of activity is development of CT tools. I would recommend that my colleagues attend the next seminar. 

 

 

It is the fourth time that I have taken part in the conference. I like this year’s event in terms of participants list, the programme and informal socializing. I am impressed by the reports of the fellow servicemen, but I would like to see more local companies share their success stories and experience. We have very little knowledge about what some service companies that keep a low profile do. I hope to listen to their reports at the 12th conference. 

 

I have come to the conference because I want to better understand the tendencies of the downhole treatment market. My expectations were met: it was very interesting to find out how servicemen in Siberia, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Kazakhstan and Belarus work... I hope we make use of their experience in Ukraine. 

 

In general I believe that this conference is a good forum on coiled tubing technologies, which gather most of industry specialists. According to the papers presented I think it’s a good mix of technical presentations and commercial presentation about new equipment available. In my opinion, it allows to promote new technical means for workover jobs in oil and gas well and to transfer technology as well. 

 

The fact that I have taken part in this even for the second time is also very illustrative. Last year I met wonderful people and established very productive business relations. This year’s conference is notable for the informative reports because CT technologies are very science-driven. They are usually used where traditional methods fail. I find it interesting because I am sure that industrial problems should be solved with the help of science. 

 

Participation in the conference allows us to determine the current level of the development of CT technologies. We follow the policy of adapting the new development to our specific conditions, refining upon it if necessary. We also try to turn our own ideas into technologies. I want to note that the conference has offered all the necessary facilities for informal socializing which helps establish contacts and share experience, maybe even better than the formal one. 

 

 

There is a reason that the conference is called scientific and practical: CT technologies are a complex fusion of science and practice. It is neither possible to determine where the border between them lies, nor is it harmless to try to separate them.

 

The Short Course was conducted by an outstanding professional who exposed the nature of CT. It was a great pleasure to listen to him and receive the information in the compressed form.

 

The conference was ideally organized and can be a paragon for suchlike events. I am very glad to have taken part in this seminar, and I would like to wish CT in Russia to have as good a development as is the management of this conference. 

 

 

I attended this meeting for the first time. It was well attended, and there were some excellent papers, covering a wide variety of topics relevant to CT and intervention. The hotel was a good choice, and the conference staff performed magnificently. The translation staff deserved a real pat on the back.

 

There appears to be much scope for expansion of coiled tubing services in Russia, especially by Russian companies themselves. The use of CT will undoubted spread, and at some point in the not-too-distant future, there will be meetings such as this one in China and SE Asia, and perhaps South America. 

 

I first took part in the conference on CT technologies as a student of Tyumen State Oil and Gas University. It is my first time here as representative of TNK-BP. The conference has grown: more new faces, companies, more topics and information. I was interested in the reports on hybrid CT units and geosteering. I will learn in due course the specifications (overall dimensions, hoisting load, bit weight etc.) of particular kinds of equipment from the colleagues with whom we exchanged contact information. 

 

I attended this event in Russia last year, and I’ve seen a great improvement from the presentations, and the venue was very good. I’ve made a lot of contacts, particularly the Russian manufacturers of coiled tubing tools. The papers this year were more devoted to actual conditions, rather than we witnessed manufacturers trying to present themselves. I’m looking forward to next year. 

 

 

It is hard to overestimate the role of this conference in the promotion of CT in the last twelve years. During this period the CT technologies have gone a long way and almost reached the level they have in the West.

A conference as a platform for exchange of views is necessary to consolidate individual experience of companies and make it public. We are interested in the whole range of the issues mentioned here: technologies, equipment, and personnel. I will certainly explore the issue and hopefully, as a result of that, new technologies will be adopted and mutually beneficial contracts signed.