In today's world “unique life” of any technological solution is quite short. Anything developed and brought into life by one engineer can be just as successfully done by another engineer and the drivers here are the invested effort and time.

Schlumberger for instance makes enormous investments in research work, personnel training, work safety. Therefore, price policies of our company differ from those in companies which operate only one coiled tubing unit and specialize in one particular type of service. As for new technologies, know-hows of yesterday are likely to be in extensive use today. A good example is well cleanout with acid application. This is a rather difficult solution, which requires certain skills and special equipment. Nowadays practically any oilfield service company in Russia can offer this service, even though it was not so long ago that some people didn't even understand the process.