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Baker Hughes – Baker Oil Tools
Booth #4241
RAM Rotatable Self-Aligning Multilateral System
The RAM Rotatable Self-Aligning Multilateral System offers a solution worldwide for extended-reach multilateral wells where getting liners to bottom may require continuous rotation. Based on the field-proven HOOK Hanger platform and developed in collaboration with an international oil company, the RAM system is the first—and thus far, only—multilateral system that allows continuous rotation of the lateral liner while simultaneously and reliably landing a completion system that can mechanically support the lateral junction.
The RAM system combines simplicity and operational efficiency to deliver reliable multilateral junctions for widely-used Level 3 and Level 5 completions. It provides mechanical support for, selective control of, and access to all lateral junctions that join cased and cemented main bores with screened or lined open-hole laterals in wells with commingled production.
The RAM system was initially developed and first successfully installed on Alaska’s North Slope in 2007. An offshore RAM installation is pending in the North Sea in early 2008, followed by applications in the Middle East.