Qls - Quick - Lock (Slickline Tools)

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WIRELINE OPERATIONS: SLICKLINE TOOLS

Slickline Tools

Wireline Equipment Catalogue v.3.2 | Slickline Tools

QLSTM Quick Lock System

Wireline Operations - Slickline Tools


The design remit of wireline tool string components was to develop
enhanced deployment systems for well intervention operations. There is
now a substantial range of unique wireline tools offering improvements
in speed, strength, safety and overall performance. Key to these improve-
ments was the introduction in 1987 of the Petroline QLS™ Quick Lock
System to replace traditional sucker rod connectors (screw thread). Now
firmly established as the leading system of its type QLS™ is in use all over
the world and has become almost an industry standard. As technology has
moved ahead so has the intervention scope broadened.

QLS replaces traditional sucker rod screw thread connections. This allows for
tool string make-up and break-out times to be radically reduced. More signifi-
cantly, the use of QLS connections removes a safety hazard from the operation.
With QLS connections there is no longer the need to use pipe wrenches when
making up tool string. In heavy jarring operations the connection cannot back
off unlike like sucker rod type connections. The connection itself is stronger than
traditional sucker rod connections in some sizes by up to 15%.

There is now a substantial range of unique


wireline tools offering improvements in speed,
strength, safety and overall performance.

Long seen as an area of low technology and in many instances regarded as a


“necessary evil” well intervention is now becoming recognised as fundamental,
when properly executed, to enhancing well performance and thereby optimising
return on investment. The QLS has been at the forefront of Wireline technologi-
cal advances changing perception and is classed as one of the products that are
regarded as the leading edge in intervention technology.

Hunting Energy Services (Well Intervention) Ltd is now able to offer all tool string
components with Licensed Petroline QLS connections. These connections are
made under license from Weatherford and are manufactured to the same high
standard that is synonymous with Petroline equipment.

TENSILE STRENGTHS OF CONNECTIONS

QLS Design Tensile Sucker Rod Design Tensile

1-1/2” 49,718 lbs 15/16” -10 46,352 lbs

1-7/8” / 2-1/8” 76,783 lbs 1-1/16” -10 62,019 lbs

2-1/2” 125,404 lbs 1-9/16”-10 147,661 lbs

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