About us

IKM together with partners entered the ownership side in 2023. IKM brings inexperience from cessation and decommissioning

Securing Equinor as customer

Launched T-3000 through-tubing concept

Full-scale testing at Ullrigg in Stavanger headed up by Norce. Results as follows:

• • Ability to heat alloy and control heating electrically
  • Ability to form
    • a high differential pressure seal,
    • a plug in “rubbelised” annular cement,
    • a plug in drilling mud (WBM),
    • a plug when you have flowing gas

Small-scale testing, setting plugs in flowing gas.
Successful full-scale yard testing in drilling mud (WBM).

A P&A and slot recovery alliance formed together with Odfjell Energy, TCO, Ardyne, Altus Intervention, Interwell and more

NRC funding successfully obtained

Wellstrøm established to combine the knowledge, experience and creativity of three specialist companies to develop sealing technologies for the oil and gas industries.

TotalEnergies becoming the first industrial sponsor of Wellstrøm

Aarbakke Innovation, on request by a North Sea operator, developed the first high temperature electric powered heating system (up to 700 deg C). The system also incorporates distributed temperature and acoustic logging, becoming also a very powerful logging and barrier integrity verification system.

Since then, Aarbakke Innovation has perhaps become the leading expert in wellbore heating, having provided flow through heating solutions as well as the highly controlled heating required for the unique Wellstrøm solutions.

Two projects funded by Innovate UK commence, to further develop expertise in expanding metal seal technology.
Proof of Concept project in collaboration with Sellafield/NNL, the first steps into the lower temperature alloys.

Attracting the interest of the Supermajors, leading to a £1M Joint Industry Project (JIP) development programme to deliver 7″ plugs for the North Sea.

Two 4″ bismuth plugs are successfully installed onshore in Suffield gas field, Alberta; approved by Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB)

Rawwater and partner fund development of bismuth alloy technology.
Workshop testing of electrically deployed 4” bismuth plugs to 5000 psig (345barg) is completed.

Shell International Exploration and Production (SIEP) introduces Rawwater to downhole electrical heating system.

With part funding from the UK Government, Rawwater successfully demonstrated the validity of using a pyrotechnic fuse for deploying 2″ bismuth plugs.

Rawwater engineering department is founded by oil and gas industry expert, Dr Bob Eden, to combat the problem of leaking well abandonments.
Receiving backing from SIEP for this work.
Combining oil and gas expertise with extensive experience in expanding metal technology, Bob Eden invents the world’s first downhole metal-to-metal seal plugging technology: the Bismuth Plug

Henning Hansen, Aarbakke Innnovation, started developing wellbore electric powered systems for offshore platform- and subsea wells. www.hansenenergy.biz