Water Well Equipment
AGE Developments’ water well equipment is designed to provide the most cost-effective long term solution, meeting all hydrology and water supply needs.
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AGE Developments manufacture and operate a range of well stimulation and testing equipment packages.
Standard, off-the-shelf packages are popular with industry personnel, however custom packages can be developed and manufactured upon request.
Hydro-Fracturing is a method of stimulating and improving the yield of a water well by opening and flushing out previously closed fractures with high pressure water.
AGE Developments manufacture a range of high-pressure inflatable packers suitable for Hydro-Fracturing, stress testing and similar applications.
Water well Drill Stem Testing (DST) is a method of selectively surveying isolated portions of a well in order to determine the water quality from each level separately before the well is completed.
Such information can be used to determine which of a range of aquifers may be used for production and which should be isolated from production.
Bridge plugs are used to create a barrier in a well to stop the flow from an aquifer.
When used for the abandonment of old wells, the plug ensures that the well can be properly cemented. Typically, an AGE inflatable bridge plug is run and inflated using a drill pipe which is then disconnected via a left hand back-off or direct shear sub.
All water wells should have cemented casing to avoid potential ingress of surface waters, protect the casing from corrosive soils, seal off aquifers with poor water quality, prevent intermixing of different aquifers and to comply with statutory requirements.
One-Shot casing Grout Packers are run in-line with the casing upon installation. When the casing is installed to total depth, the grout stinger attached to the drill string is run inside the casing until it lands out on the packer.
Casing Grout Valves provide a simple means of effectively and safely grouting the casing. Similar to the One-Shot Casing Grout Packers, the Grout Valve is run inline with the casing upon installation.
Float Shoes are connected to the bottom of a casing string to allow the casing to be floated into the well and cemented into place.
Float Collars are connected in-line within the casing string to allow the casing to be floated into the well and cemented into place.
AGE Developments provide custom manufactured FRP and GRE casing crossovers for professional well completion. Casing crossovers are available for all sizes in either a stainless steel machined form or as a stainless steel bonded joint.
Machined Crossovers are custom-manufactured from stainless steel material, and provide a direct screwed or wire rope spigot joint to adapt directly to the FRP or GRE casing.
AGE produces several versatile sealing systems, designed to suit telescoped well casing screens, both gravel-packed and non-gravel-packed.
AGE ‘M’ Packers are AGE’s sensible alternative to the old K-rubber packers used for sealing telescoped screens into casing.
AGE Inflatable Slipover Packers are ideal for sealing gravel packed screens into casing. A Slipover Packer comprises a short, centralised length of stainless steel pipe with lead-in and lead-out cones, an internal landing ring, a standard external inflatable packer to seal against the casing and an internal ‘M’ packer to seal on the outside of the screen riser pipe. It is installed and inflated using an AGE installation tool run on drill pipe.
The AGE Riserless Pump System allows the casing itself to be used as the riser for an electric submersible pump, by sealing and supporting the pump in the casing with an inflatable packer.
This system eliminates the need for a separate riser column, ensuring much lower frictional pumping losses and providing a broad range of contingent advantages.
The AGE Torque Arrestor System was developed by AGE following numerous CCTV camera inspections of damaged wells, completed with submersible pumps installed on “Lay-flat” hose and fishing of pumps installed on threaded riser columns.
Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) is a method of enhancing water recharge to underground aquifers by gravity feeding or pumping excess water into the aquifers for later use in times of peak demand.
ASR is a low-cost alternative to store water (compared to surface storages) and can minimise evaporative water loss. During recharging, the water in the column is controlled to prevent air from being entrained or trapped in the fluid flow and carried into the aquifer. Entrained air can adversely effect the recharge efforts, through air-fouling, bio-fouling and calcite formation, blocking the flow of water into the aquifer.
