realized the efficiency and
speed of using frac sleeves - it
offers economic advantages,”
says Eric Schmelzl, the Vice
President of Strategic Busi-
ness with NCS Energy Servic-
es. To date, the company has
more than 23,000 frac sleeves
in service, has completed over
3,500 wells with over 50,000
frac stages, completed 62
frac stages in a single well,
and has mitigated more than
2,030 screen outs without an
extra trip into the well.
NCS Energy Services was not
the first company to market
and utilize a frac sleeve. The
company saw the shortcom-
ings of existing sleeve prod-
ucts and seized an opportuni-
ty to improve on the design to
add value. “In the early days,
what others lacked was a bot-
tom hole assembly to reliably
operate frac sleeves,” says
Schmelzl. By designing the
frac sleeve and the BHA to
work together, the NCS sys-
tem produces a highly reliable
and repeatable field opera-
tion. “Innovation is born out
of need, and the innovation
that the Canadian oil patch
has brought to the industry as
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