What is VersaFlex Liner Hanger

System?
Combines a TBR, expandable liner
hanger & packer with Halliburtons
industry-leading cement design,
cementing and casing accessories.

Halliburton is:
#1 global supplier of Expandable Liner
Hangers

#3 global supplier of Liner Hangers

 Who is buying VersaFlex?
PEMEX
BP Petrobras
Chevron Korea National Oil Corp.
ConocoPhillips Stone Energy
Maersk Fluxys
Shell Repsol YPF
Devon Energy Apache
Chesapeake Stone Energy
Anadarko Petroleum AGR

Over 100 Independent, IOCs and

NOCs
Installation History through Jan 2010
+1,883 Installations

Deepest TOL:
29,345 ft (8,944 m)
Temperature
Range Shallow TOL:
100 - 386F 532 ft (162 m)
(37 196C)
Deepest Liner Shoe
Set:
33,548 ft (10,225 m)

Mud Weight Longest Liner

Range 4.5 10,626 ft
4.2 ppg 19.5 (3,238 m)
ppg 7 11,797 ft (3,595
(0.503 2.337 m)
sg) 9.625 8,562 ft
Shortest Liner (2,609 m)
35 ft (10 m) 9.875 - 12,179 ft
(3,712 m)
VersaFlex Reliability

2009 (through July)

Seal Reliability = 100%
Job Success Rate = 96.8%
11 Irregular Jobs in 339 jobs
2008
Seal Reliability = 100%
Job Success Rate = 96.7%
22 Irregular Jobs in 665 jobs
Regional VersaFlex Installations
Norway

UK
53 installations
49 installations
Starting March 2005
Starting May 2005
32 9 5/8 x 13 5/8
28 9 5/8 x 13 5/8
1 9 5/8 x 11
12 7 x 9 5/8
14 7 x 9 5/8
9 4 x 7
Maersk, ConocoPhillips, Petrofac, BP, Providence, AGR, DONG, Aker
Exploration
Belgium Gas
Russia
Storage 1 5 x 7 w/DSS
2 7 x 9 5/8
1 7 5/8 x 9 5/8
Snubbed in HWO unit
1500 psi well pressure
Why are Customers buying
VersaFlex?
Real Advantages:
Simplified hardware
No slips to damage casing
Circulation pressures of +3500 psi
(+241 bar)
Bonded elastomers
Redundant seal areas
Rotating & Reciprocation Better
cement job
Wash & Ream ability to get to TD
Save rig time
Gas tight reliable liner top seal
Simplified Liner Hanger / Packer
VersaFlex Conventional
Body w/ bonded
Mandrel
elastomers
Liner hanger slips
Cones
Hydraulic cylinder
O-ring seals
Shear screws
Set screws
Retaining rings
Drag springs
Packer element
Hold-down slips

90% Less Parts = 90% Less Risk

VersaFlex Gas Tight Seal
The strength of VersaFlex:
Bonded elastomer copes with
rigorous circulation
12 long elements
Single element holds full pressure
3 or 5 redundant elements
Up to 400,000 lbs per element
Replace slips in conventional
equipment
Cement not required in liner lap
for pressure integrity
Eliminate remedial work
ISO 14310 V0
Compare the procedures for
installation
Conventional Hanger
1. Drop ball (pump down)
2. Set hanger (pressure)
3. Check hanger set (set down Expandable Hanger
weight)
1. Pump cement job
4. Release setting tool (torque)
(rotate & reciprocate)
5. Check if RT is released (pick up)
2. Set hanger-packer (pressure)
6. Blow ball seat (pressure)
7. Pump cement job (rotate) 3. Check hanger set (over pull)
8. Expose packer dogs (pick up) 4. Release RT (slack off)
9. Set the packer (set down weight)
10.Pull pack off (pick up)
 VersaFlex Portfolio
VersaFlex Size
Liner Size Casing Weight Metallurgy Running Tools Availability
(Casing Size)
4 5 1/2 15.5 - 26 A HT
5 or 5 1/2 7 20 - 35 A, Cr, D, I S, HT
5 1/2 7 5/8 26.4 - 39 A S, HT
6 5/8 8 5/8 A HT Q2 2010
7 5/8 9 3/8 39 A, Cr, D, I S, HT
S, HT, SAW, MB,
7 or 7 5/8 9 5/8 36-58.4 A, Cr, D, I ECD
7 5/8 9 7/8 62.8 A, Cr, D, I S, HT
8 5/8 10 3/4 55.5 - 71.1 A HT Q1 2010
9 5/8 11 3/4 54 - 65 A S
9 5/8 11 7/8 71.8 A S
11 7/8 13 3/8 61 - 72 A S
11 7/8 13 5/8 88.2 A S
84-96; 102.9-
13 3/8 16 118 A BB Q1 2010
16 20 133; 147 A Steel A
Alloy S Standard
BB
Cr S13Cr HT High Torque
18 22 224 D DOM A Steel BB
SAW Stimulation Acid Washdown
Alloy MB Monobore
I Incoloy BB Big Bore
825/925 ECD Equivalent Circulating
Density
Smaller liner sizes can be run with a
crossover
VersaFlex Running Tool Torque Ratings
High
Size Standard SAW ECD Monobore Big Bore
Torque
4 x 5 1/2" 15,000

5 1/2 x 7 12,000 34,000

5 1/2 x 7 5/8 12,000 34,000

6 5/8 x 8 5/8 34,000

7 or 7 5/8 x 9 15,500 14,000 37,700 28,000 40,000

5/8
8 5/8 x 10 3/4" 37,700

9 5/8 x 11 3/4 45,000

11 7/8 x 13 3/8 45,000

13 3/8 x 16 100,000

16 x 20 100,000

18 x 22 100,000
 VersaFlex High Torque System
7 3/4 x 10 3/4 Liner Hanger System
7 5/8 x 9 5/8 Liner Hanger System VersaFlex
Competitor
5 1/2 x 7 5/8 Liner Hanger System High Torque
5 x 7 Liner Hanger System
Greater than 37,000 ft-lbs rating
Y Y
Greater than 34,000 ft-lbs rating
+15 bpm circulation rate
Y Y
+8 bpm circulation rate
3500 psi circulation pressure capability Y No
Eliminate pre-set slip risk Y No
Redundant gas tight seals Y No
Elastomers bonded to hanger body Y No
3 setting methods Y No
Dependant on plug bump to set No No
 VersaFlex Big Bore Liner / Casing Hanger system
Sizes - 100 kft-lbs torque
13 3/8 x 16
16 x 20
18 x 22
Replacement technology for
Sub-Sea casing hangers
Wiper plugs or inner string
cementing
Set at any depth, not
dependant on getting to
hanger profile
VersaFlex Big Bore High deviation kick off Supplemental CSG HGR
possible
 CAPEX Savings (16 &18)
Current state-of-the-art: Proposed VFELH Big Bore:
18 and 16 casing strings 18 and 16 casing strings
suspended BML in 22 casing suspended as liners

Mud Line
36 Conductor 250 300
Penetration BML

22 Surface Casing set

2000 3000 BML

Est. Savings on the

18 Liner = $435k - $650k

18 Liner Casing set

8000 9000 BML

Est. Savings on the

16 Liner = $1,000k - $1,200k
16 Liner Casing set
13,000 15,000 BML
 VersaFlex Big Bore
Size Specifications
Yield Collapse Max OD Tensile

13-5/8 x 16 9429 psi 5890 psi 14.26 2.5MM

9610 psi 14.51 2.3MM

16 x 20 4999 psi 4855 psi 17.55 1.4MM

16 x 22 5131 psi 4855 psi 18.46 1.6MM

17-7/8 x 22 5131 psi 4979 psi 18.46 1.6MM

18 x 22 4685 psi 4557 psi 18.61 1.4MM

16 x 20 VersaFlex Big Bore first
Liner hanger set and pull
job tested successfully, 100,000
lbs over-pull held for 5
minutes.
Flow by area of the 16
Liner hanger was increased
from 12 in2 (Casing Hanger)
to 30.55 in2 (VersaFlex
Hanger)
Liner cemented by the book;
spot on displacement, plug
bumped, inflow tested and
full returns observed during
whole operation
Well Integrity of 20 x 16
casings was successfully
pressure tested to 3000psi
for 30 minutes
VersaFlex Versatility
Applications Hole Conditions
Drilling Liners Washing
Production Liners Reaming
Slotted Liners Lost Circulation
Screens Extended Reach
Off Bottom Cementing Underbalanced
Stage Cementing
Unstable Wellbores
Tight Tolerance Liners
Drilling New Hole
Extended Reach Liners
Open Hole Completions
Horizontal Completions
Drill-In Liners
 Drilling or Production Liner
Advantages
Simple hardware
Rotate & Reciprocate
High Pump Pressures &
Rates
Gas Tight Seal

VersaFlex, Protech centralizers, Reamer Shoe

 Drill-in with ELH
Advantages
Casing in place if hole
collapse
Less conditioning time
Less bridging wall
plastering
High RPMs
High flow rates

VersaFlex High Torque, Protech

centralizers
 Off Bottom & Stage Cementing
Advantages
Designed isolation
Stay within formation pressure
limits
Higher density cement than
full column single stage
cement
Stop formation crossflows
Gas tight liner top seal

VersaFlex, Type H ES II Cementer, ESIPC,

plug(s)
Not just difficult wells

VersaFlex is for ALL liner applications

Vertical
Deviated
Horizontal
Extended reach

The Simple, Reliable and Systemic Solution to

Running, Hanging, Sealing, & Cementing ALL
Liners. . .
VersaFlex
VersaFlex - A Better Liner Hanger System

Simple
Liner Top Integrity
Redundant sealing areas
Gas tight seal
Hydraulic set packer elements
Deploying the liner
No slips
No external moving parts
Sets in any casing hardness
Will not damage parent casing
Improved cementing jobs
Rotation and reciprocation
High circulation rates
No place for well debris
No tortuous fluid flow paths
VersaFlex Delivers
Reduced Non-Productive Time
Improved cementing processes
Superior sealing multiple
elastomers
Landing the liner Wash and Ream
Operates in high solids content
fluids
Isolated setting mechanism
Overpull test hanger set
verification
Save rig time

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