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Oildata began operation as an independent Cased Hole Service Company in Nigeria, in 1994, by introducing the concept of the Rigless Electric Line Workover to Chevron. At the time the company owned a single electric line unit.The initial tests proved very successful. The company grew rapidly as other clients, such as Shell, Mobil, Texaco and Elf adopted the techniques for their marginal and mature oil and gas fields.

By the end of 1998, over 100 successful rigless workover jobs had been performed in Nigeria.

Oildata's solutions are conveyed on Electric line, Slick line or Coiled Tubing and include Production Logging, Perforating, Rigless Water and Bas Shutoff, Horizontal Well Logging, Fluid Contact Monitoring, and Fast-track Marginal Field Development solutions, amongst others.

As a company, Oildata has achieved a number of technological milestones:

• Oildata was the first company to successfully record a horizontal well Production Log on an ExxonMobil Well in West Africa (Ubit 71, Ubit 75, 1995)
• The first service company to log a memory log on a short Radius horizontal well in Africa. (Ashland, 1997)
• Oildata was the first company to design and install an open-close-open straddle packer system to isolate a high pressure gas zone while simultaneously permitting the production of oil from a deeper horizon (ChevronTexaco, 1998, 1999)
• Oildata was the first company to deploy a wireline tractor in a horizontal well in Nigeria to acquire reservoir data without coiled tubing or pipe conveyed logging equipment (Shell, 1999)
• Oildata successfully re-established oil production from the abandoned Salt pond Marginal field, offshore Ghana. (SOPC/GNPC - 2002)
• Oildata has performed 100% of ChevronTexaco's non-rig well interventions and data acquisition requirements in Nigeria since 1996