Case Study: North Sea Operating Company eliminates ESP failures with SLB Lift IQ service

Lift IQ Service Eliminates USD 2 Million Workovers to Replace ESPs After Scale Squeezes

SLB worked with North Sea Operating Company, an operator in a North Sea field, to address ESP failures caused by low-temperature scale squeeze operations. The company needed a way to keep downhole temperatures high enough to protect elastomers and avoid expensive workovers after scale inhibition treatments.

SLB implemented its Lift IQ production life cycle management service to remotely monitor ESP performance and coordinate scale squeeze operations in real time. When temperatures approached critical thresholds, SLB engineers advised reducing injection rate or pausing the job, and the result was zero ESP failures after scale squeezes over two years, despite 157 squeezes across 54 wells, avoiding workovers that could cost about USD 2 million each.