We are looking back to cast a glance at March 1998, which seems so  distant from today… It was the time when almost all of those in Russia who were acquainted with coiled tubing technology gathered for the first Conference held in the first capital city. There is more of harmony in the last words than of tautology because nowadays we don’t hear “first” and “for the first time” as often as we heard them then.

Ten conferences have been held, it is by them that the coiled tubing industry in Russia sets the time – the coiled tubing time. There used to be  46 coiled tubing units working; today there are 140 of them. The number of coiled tubing technologies put into practice in Russia has grown fivefold since that times. Some statements made at the first conference seem naive now. Others have remained relevant up to date. The advanced technologies of well intervention never stop in their development, like a spiral of knowledge winding around the reel. It was the first Conference where the first coil of the tube was made.