MPC saved two days rig time for Vietnam operator Challenges • Stuck completion string • Cut needed quickly to avoid delay costs Results • MPC made successful cut on first attempt in less than one hour • Two days of rig time saved • No explosives resulted in a safer, cleaner job An operator in Vietnam was performing a workover on an offshore well. The company was unable to retrieve the old completion string in the well and contacted Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), to cut the stuck 4-1/2 in. tubing string in order to proceed with the job. Ninety minutes after the call, the BHGE wireline crew loaded its Mechanical Pipe Cutter TM (MPC TM ) tool onto a helicopter and took off for the rig. The MPC is fully transportable by helicopter because it

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