Setting up a drilling and workover camp in a remote location is typically conducted like a military drill by the professional drilling companies. Everything has a pre-arranged location and they do it the same way every time. This builds continuity, safety, and efficiency into their mobilization. And that earns them revenue—because time is money in this business.
Well site camps can look like military camps too, with everything laid out around the drilling rig in a precise manner. Occupied spaces reside in one area, with site stores in another, along with a fuel depot for the heavy generators and equipment.
The remoteness also highlights the need to exercise a greater degree of caution and safety in how you operate. Help will not arrive quickly. A small problem can become a big problem.
The Fire Risk
This is especially the case with fire. In addition to the site’s inaccessibility, there is probably no water source available either. The crews at the site are on their own with limited resources for a significant period of time until help arrives.
A fire in any of a drilling camp’s storage sites can have serious consequences to the operation. The crews only carry what they think they will use, so the storage of tools and equipment is premium real estate. Also, since a typical drill site is powered by heavy diesel generators and drivers, fuel storage and distribution are super-critical.
A significant fire in the storage area for downhole tools and instruments can damage or destroy hundreds of thousands of dollars in highly technical equipment. While fuel and fuel storage and distribution equipment are comparatively inexpensive, everything on the site is ultimately powered by that fuel.
Far and away the biggest cost is downtime of the rig. With well completion paying $3 to $5 million per well*, drilling operations are big earners. Every day not spent drilling or working over a well represents a heavy hit to revenue.
The remoteness, value, and transient nature of drilling operations requires a quick-acting fire suppressant that extinguishes a fire while it is small. The ideal unit is self-contained, can activate with or without a detection system, and can withstand the rigors of the oil and gas fields.
The Solution
The Stat-X® aerosol fire suppression system is perfectly suited to protect vital enclosed storage and equipment as well as fuel provisioning at remote drilling sites. The Stat-X system consists of compact individual units that can be mounted to protect single pieces of equipment or configured for area total flooding. Being virtually maintenance-free, the Stat-X units are built to withstand the harshest of environments.
* Source: https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/drilling/pdf/upstream.pdf
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Talk To An Expert"After researching available special hazard (fire) systems for the very best protection as well as compliance with safety and environmental issues we found Stat-X technology as the product leader."
— Engineer, Leicestershire, UK
An affordable, simple solution for safeguarding well site and remote storage special hazards in a fire event
Operators need a compact, durable fire suppression systems for well site and remote storage that quickly detects and suppresses fire, complies with regulations and keeps employees, assets, and environment front of mind.
Stat-X has many listings and approvals that supports these criteria, offering quick and effective fire suppression, durability, minimal maintenance, and environmental safety in the challenging remote locations and conditions well site and remote storage.
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Stat-X Fire Suppression Features:
An alternative to traditional special hazard Fire Protection
- Effective Agent PerformanceHighly effective based on required density
- Compact and ModularOffering adaptable design especially when space and weight are critical
- Simple and Economic InstallationNo piping required, resulting in significant savings on parts and labor
- DurableIdeal for harsh environments and remote locations
- Made in the USA
- Long service lifeService life of fifteen (15) years
- Virtually Maintenance FreeNo cylinder weighing requirement or leakage risks
- U.S. EPA SNAP listed for normally occupied and unoccupied spacesRegulatory certainty. No risk of future regulations interrupting supply
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- Installed on every continent
- 329 distributors
- 782,000 sold worldwide
- 94 countries
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Stat-X is an ideal fire suppression alternative to HFC based systems that are being regulated out of use through various global movements; and to PFAS based systems that are starting to face significant regulatory pressure at the local level, and likely to be more widespread in the coming years.
Fireaway Inc. designs and manufactures the Stat-X® condensed aerosol fire suppression product line.