In a play on words, Bill Dean, business development manager for Houston-based Enventure Global Technology LLC said expanding solid tubulars was a "pipe dream" of which many in the industry were ...

Tatneft has developed guidelines for running expandable-profile liners in wells with complex geology, based on operations in Iran, China, and Tatarstan. Since the early 1980s, expandable casing ...

The idea of using expandable pipe in oil wells, once just a promising notion, is starting to become standard operating procedure with the rapid evolution of this technology developed in Houston. In ...

Expandable tubulars are downhole pipes that are plastically enlarged in-situ with a conical swage (or hydraulic expansion) to restore or increase internal diameter, seal off problem zones, or create ...