Electric rig-less well intervention and abandonment

E-Plug builds electric downhole tools for well intervention that do not need a rig. Its Electric Manipulation Tool delivers high force downhole under real-time electric control using the patented TorcMethod, which transfers torque through a counterhold mechanism and uses no explosives. A tool can be set, re-set, and operated several times in a single run.

Track record and clients

E-Plug runs 70 specialists across mechanical, electrical, and software disciplines, with offices in Perth alongside Doha and Kuala Lumpur. On an onshore gas field plug and abandonment campaign in the Netherlands, an operator used the approach for a through-tubing abandonment, setting a bridge plug with a gauge below it to verify annular integrity in real time. Its TorcPlug is a barrier-qualified bridge plug that can be set multiple times and retrieved, run on wireline or electric coiled tubing, for tubing and casing from 4 1/2 inch to 9 5/8 inch.

The commercial case

The single largest cost and the longest lead item in many well operations is the rig. Moving scope onto wireline or coiled tubing removes both the rig time and the wait for a slot, and the absence of explosives removes a class of permit, handling, and red-zone exposure. That lands hardest in plug and abandonment, the scope that is growing across the industry as fields reach end of life.

Why it is in the Hub

Pulse represents E-Plug in Australia because the P&A liability on WA fields is rising, and much of that scope currently assumes a rig. With an office already in Perth, the support sits in the region, and the question worth asking on a specific well programme is which steps truly need a rig and which can be done electrically.