Completions

In deepwater and multizone developments, traditional hydraulic intelligent completions can limit economic optimization, due to control-line scale, installation time, and delayed interval-control valve response. Simplified intelligent completion architectures address these constraints by reducing infrastructure complexity, shortening critical‑path rig time, and allowing rapid, bidirectional zonal control without production shut‑in. 

Surface-based pressure signal analysis provides real-time insights during hydraulic fracturing, enabling operators to optimize treatment outcomes, reduce operational risks and strategically lower capital expenditures. 

Vulcan Completion Products has launched the PROBE MAGMA-SEAL casing shoe system, an HPHT well construction technology designed for high-pressure fracturing and completion operations.

All‑electric intelligent completions are increasingly popular versus hydraulic architectures in deepwater and complex multizone wells, as longer tie-backs and more challenging reservoirs become the norm. Hydraulic systems can introduce installation complexity, delay response times, and increase operational risk. All‑electric completion systems address these constraints through simplified architecture, faster actuation, and continuous digital feedback. Utilizing field data and operational experience, the measurable value of electrification, how it supports real‑time reservoir management, and its emergence as a standard for deepwater developments are examined.  

Halliburton has secured a multibillion-dollar contract from YPF to provide unconventional completions and electric fracturing services in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale play.

Weatherford has secured a multi-year integrated completions contract from TotalEnergies to support offshore operations in Denmark, expanding its North Sea well services and completions portfolio.

Anasuria Operating Company has selected MODS Connect WorkPack and MODS Connect Completions under a new 12-month contract to digitalize project execution and completions across its UK North Sea assets.

Aberdeenshire-based completions specialist Vulcan Completion Products (VCP) is marking a new stage in its global growth as its workforce approaches 40 employees and operations extend to nearly 50 countries.

Halliburton reported $5.6 billion in Q3 2025 revenue, led by North America growth and steady international results. Adjusted earnings rose to $496 million as the company emphasized cost discipline, technology leadership and shareholder returns.

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects depend on one uncompromising factor: integrity. Unlike oil and gas wells designed for decades, CCUS wells must remain sealed and secure for up to 75 years or more. This panel will explore how existing completion technologies—adapted with the right metallurgies, packers, cementing practices, and zonal isolation techniques—can deliver reliable containment under corrosive CO₂ environments. We’ll discuss what’s required to demonstrate injectivity without exceeding fracture pressures, how to optimize well design for cost and long-term reliability, and why monitoring is as critical as the initial construction. From real-time fiber optic and electronic gauge data to periodic logging and corrosion checks, effective monitoring ensures that what goes in stays in. With lessons from both subsurface design and surface execution, the session will highlight how to adapt proven oil and gas technologies to meet CCUS requirements while aligning with regulatory compliance, cost efficiency, and longevity.

Viking Completion Technology has achieved a key milestone in North Africa after delivering upper completion equipment for an onshore oil project, underscoring the company’s growing role in the region’s upstream sector.

A new Middle Eastern record was set with a 29-stage StackFRAC® system in a tight carbonate, extended-reach well. Despite severe doglegs and a 6,700-ft lateral, the system deployed flawlessly—every sleeve shifted, every stage completed. Innovation, precision and planning allowed this multistage performance. 

Baker Hughes and Cactus, a global manufacturer of pressure control equipment for oil and gas drilling, have entered a new joint venture involving Baker Hughes' surface pressure control (SPC) product line. Cactus will own 65% of the JV, while Baker Hughes will retain a 35% stake.

UK-based Vulcan Completion Products has partnered with Sudelac Limited under an IP license agreement to offer advanced pressure and load testing for float equipment using the patented FloatCHECKER PT system.

One X has acquired United Energy Partners in a move that accelerates One X’s strategy to become the go-to field partner for high-efficiency, low-maintenance, service-less valve systems across the Lower 48.

Join us for a live look inside the shift toward a connected and predictive future of oil and gas operations. This exclusive webinar showcases the potential of fully integrated operations of the future—where simplicity, mobility, and AI come together to break silos and unify workflows across drilling, completions, geology, and more. During the webinar, you’ll experience live perspectives from a drilling engineer, company man, ops geologist, and completions engineer, and see how predictive guidance and intelligent automation are transforming collaboration and accelerating performance—worldwide.

SLB announced at OTC Day 2 the launch of Electris™ — a portfolio of digitally enabled electric well completions technologies that boost production and recovery while reducing the total cost of ownership of an asset.

Vertice Oil Tools has acquired Greenwell Engineering in a strategic move that expands Vertice’s completions portfolio, enhances its ability to support wireline service providers and E&P companies, and broadens its presence across unconventional oil and gas markets. 

RPC, Inc. has acquired Pintail Completions for approximately $245 million, subject to customary post-closing adjustments. Pintail is headquartered in Midland, Texas and is a leading provider of oilfield wireline services in the Permian basin.

Zion Oil & Gas announced a significant operational milestone as work resumes on the recompletion of the Megiddo-Jezreel 1 (MJ-01) well in Israel. This marks a crucial phase in Zion’s ongoing efforts to unlock Israel’s onshore energy potential.

Atlas Energy Solutions Inc. announced the first commercial delivery of proppant sand from its Dune Express conveyor system in the Permian basin. Proppant is a necessary component in recovery of hydrocarbons from oil and natural gas wells.