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Canadian Casing Accessories Inc. (CCAI) provides a comprehensive range of casing products and services, playing a major role in supporting the Canadian rig market. Their offerings include float equipment, cement plugs, and proprietary products like reamer shoes and wellbore scratchers.
Published November 18, 2024
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Updated December 10, 2024
Oil & Gas
Drilling
Product Overview
Overview
Canadian Casing Accessories Inc. (CCAI) specializes in Casing and Tubing Accessories (CTA) for oil and gas operations, offering a wide range of solutions such as float equipment, centralizers, plugs, external casing packers, and stage cementing tools. Below are some of their key products:
Buoyancy System
- Features a stainless steel rupture disk that shears cleanly, leaving no debris, unlike traditional glass disks, which risk premature shearing or incomplete shear.
- Creates an air-filled space in the casing where the buoyancy plug is installed, improving buoyancy for long horizontal casing runs, enhancing installation efficiency.
Floor Launcher™ with Cement Plugs
- Positioned beneath a standard cement head as it launches single, double, or triple-length plugs during operations.
- Enhances casing wiping by mitigating cement left in the casing, preventing issues with tools like ball-drop systems.
- Prevents cement stingers, ensurin , reducing the need for confirmation runs and milling cement.
TripSaver™ Segmented Cement Plugs
- Designed to allow drilling through plugs with smaller bit sizes, avoiding the need for trips to mill out plugs.
- Optimizes monobore completions, reducing rig time and costs.
- Prevents complications like speared plugs or fluid loss by releasing fins during drilling.
- Components are lightweight, easily circulated, and color-coded for quick identification.
Business Model
- Supplies the equipment to customers on a call-out or per-order basis, rather than selling the products outright.
- Customers call for the equipment as needed for their projects, and the company provides recommendations on the number of products required based on the project size.
- Operates as an equipment supplier, providing tools like flow launchers, trip savers, and float equipment, rather than cementing services.
- Additionally, the company collaborates with customers seeking to expand into new markets, acting as a key supplier.
Technology Innovations
- Buoyancy System: Uses a stainless steel rupture disk that shears away cleanly, leaving a flat surface without debris, in contrast to competitors' glass or ceramic discs.
- Floor Launcher System: Eliminates cement stingers, reducing the need for confirmation tagging runs incase if the plug is not bumped.
- Trip Saver Segmented Cement Plugs: Features a smaller outer diameter and segmented rubber components that allow the plug to be drilled through and circulated out, eliminating the need for additional trips to remove plugs.
- Float Valves: Designed with a larger flow area than competitors' products, these valves can withstand high-pressure (15,000 psi) applications, such as fracking.
Applications
CCAI's products are designed to enhance operational efficiency in cementing processes, focusing on specific challenges across various stages of production:
- Buoyancy System: Used in long horizontal casing runs, creating air-filled spaces to improve buoyancy and simplify installation.
- Floor Launcher System: Addresses issues with residual cement in the casing, ensuring smoother tool operations such as ball-drop systems as it eliminates cement stingers, reducing the need for confirmation runs and cement milling before well completion.
- Trip Saver Segmented Cement Plugs: Facilitates operations with smaller casing strings, allowing the drill bit to pass through plugs without requiring drill pipe trips.
Market Focus:
- Primarily serving the Canadian market, with expansion efforts in North America, Latin America, and the Middle East.
- Supplies equipment for the surface, intermediate, and production stages of oil and gas operations.
- The company does not provide cementing services and only supplies the equipment to the customers.