Hunting’s select fire perforating system sets new Canadian e-coil perforating record

HOUSTON -- Hunting announced Monday that its Titan Division’s select fire perforating system recently set a new Canadian e-coil perforating record with a 52-CFA gun string deployed by Titanium Tubing Technology Ltd. for Teine Energy Ltd. in Kindersley, Saskatchewan.

Titanium achieved the record, previously held by Tucker Energy Services in Canada, after deploying the guns’ string in one run with 60.3-mm e-coil. By using Hunting’s Titan Division ControlFire switch system, the company was able to perforate in a single trip rather than in the typical two to three runs.

“Titanium wanted to reduce costs by finding an electronic selective firing system that allowed them to deploy multiple perforating guns on coiled tubing in a single trip,” said Rick Bradley, president of Hunting’s Titan Division.

“After exhaustive competitive evaluations, Titanium selected Hunting’s ControlFire assembly (CFA) perforating system because our CFA could efficiently deploy more than 100 guns in a single run, and because it is a reliable perforating system completely safe from RF, ESD, stray voltage and line voltage up to 500 VDC,” said Bradley.

Titan’s ControlFire switch system is the latest in perforating switch technology that uses unique switch identification logic to selectively perforate multiple intervals in one trip.

Each ControlFire switch provides real-time confirmation and skip-over capabilities through a surface perforating command and control panel.