Drilling Services

The Unadrill division of Unaoil is built around partnerships and strategic joint venture partners. We strive to bring the leading oil field drilling services to the market and to involve ourselves in the delivery of various product lines.

Below are a few areas where Unadrill can help its clients:

Provision of drilling and work-over rigs on a sale or rental basis
Down-hole tool rentals i.e. drilling jars, shocks subs, under-reamers etc.
Fishing tools
Packers, bridge plugs and retainers
Environmental services, impact studies, sludge pit clean-ups, filtration of brine fluids and a variety of services in this sector
Project management
Solids control rental equipment
Membrane nitrogen services (on-site nitrogen services)
Early oil production facilities (EPF’s)
Directional drilling services
Well-testing
The supply and sale of drilling bits
Casing and tubing running services
Wire-line services

In several of the areas listed above, we invest directly to provide integrated services locally under the Unadrill brand.

Unadrill is committed to the design and development of safer, more efficient oil field services and follows a strict HSE policy. In the pursuit of this objective, management and employees share the responsibility of creating a safe, healthy and productive workplace.

Unadrill strives to meet or exceed requirements of safety and occupational health legislation, and all other regulations applicable to safety, within the relevant operating jurisdiction. It is also our priority to inform employees of known hazards associated with their work and to provide training when necessary.

Recent Projects

Provision of Rolls Royce gas generators to SOC Iraq

During 2009 Unaoil successfully supplied, installed and commissioned 3 brand new Rolls Royce Avon 1535 Gas Generators to SOC Iraq. The project was executed ahead of schedule and allowed SOC to increase its oil output.

At a time when many Western companies are starting to consider returning to Iraq, Unaoil are ahead of the field and as part of this contract had a highly skilled, fully trained ex-pat team based in Iraq. They worked closely with the Unaoil in-country Iraqi experts.

This project once again demonstrated Unaoil’s unique capability to supply innovative technical and commercial solutions in the most challenging of environments ahead of schedule and exceeding the customer’s expectations.

Provision of production chemicals in Iraq

Unaoil’s involvement with Production Chemicals began in 2004 when we started supplying the Iraqi South Oil Company with desperately needed Emulsion Breaker (Demulsifier).

By 2006 Unaoil had established ‘Unachem Ltd’ which employed a dedicated and experienced team of locals and ex-pats. Combining this with the Group’s existing resources and infrastructure, we were able to cover all the skills and resources required of an independent Production Chemical company while at the same time providing on-site support to clients in Iraq. The integration of local capability with leading technology meant that by 2008, Unachem had engineered and prequalified several products including Demulsifiers and Corrosion Inhibitors, set up a blending and logistics facility in Ajman (UAE) and secured a revolving US$10m structured facility with BNP Paribas to support its production chemical business. Between 2006 and 2008 we secured greater than 90% of the production chemical market in Southern Iraq, delivered 40,000 drums of Demulsifier to SOC and were amongst the pioneers in qualifying and winning large contracts for the supply of Corrosion Inhibitor for SOC’s water injection facilities.

Our Group had several technical partners who provided innovative chemistry, lab support and QA/QC standards. We leveraged this platform to devise and refine products that were tailored for the Southern Iraq oilfields. One of our technical partners, Weatherford International, went on to purchase Unachem in 2008 and Unaoil remains their commercial advisors for all their Production Chemicals business for several countries in the Middle East.

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