Red Spider Wins Contract in Gabon

Red Spider has secured a contract in West Africa for Total’s Anguille field, valued at $940,000. As part of the three-year agreement, Red Spider will supply and service eREDs for the Anguille field in Gabon.

The scope of work will involve Red Spider providing a total of 12 of its 3.25” eREDs – with two being deployed on each of the six wells. These will be positioned as barriers within injector wells, with one of the eREDs being used as a shallow-set barrier and the second as a deep-set barrier. The flexibility of the tool allows it to be opened and closed many times, reducing the number of wireline runs, while mitigating any unforeseen operational problems, which will potentially save many additional hours of rig time.

The use of the eREDs will also provide significant financial savings. The two tools combined are expected to decrease necessary wireline runs by 10 during each operation, reducing any potential health and safety issues and risk exposure compared to running standard plug and prong barriers.

Red Spider’s Africa sales manager Barry Killoh said: “The eRED is a very popular tool due to the time and money saving benefits it provides. Securing this job with a new client for the company in the West Africa region, is a true testament to the quality of Red Spider’s technology and level of service we provide. We are currently in discussions with a number of other oil and gas majors about future work in Nigeria and we hope to further expand Red Spider’s presence within Africa.”