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  • Drill Stem Testing Tools
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Tool Catalog

Northstar's extensive inventory of downhole tools provides you with the tools you need combined with the responsive service to ship them where you need, when you need them -- whether you're operating in Western Canada, the Western Hemisphere or half-way around the globe. Our catalog includes downhole tools for:

  • Drillstem testing
  • Production
  • Injection
  • Zone isolation
  • Acidizing
  • Well control
  • Stimulation


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For a detailed list of our tools, consult our product catalog and contact us for support on tool configurations, running procedures, and operating programs.

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Fail Safe Head

1001 - Fail Safe Head

The Fail Safe Head provides a means for safely connecting the flow from the drill pipe into the flow hose. It consists of a tool joint pin to connect with the drill pipe, a drop bar pin, a ball valve which can act as a master valve, and bearings to allow the drill pipe to rotate without twisting the flow lines.

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Hydraulic Valve

1002 - Hydraulic Valve

The Hydraulic Valve is a down hole valve used in opening and closing the flow from the test zone. The tool gives positive surface indications of opening: a sudden small movement of the drill pipe, combined with a slight reduction in drill pipe weight.

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Pump Out Sub

1003 - Pump Out Sub

The Pump Out Sub is used to circulate fluid from the drill string after the DST has been completed and the drill string is ready to be removed.

The Pump Out Sub consists of a short sub with one or more hollow pins screwed into the sides. These pins project into the sub bore during the course of a test.

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Sampler

1004 - Sampler

The Sampler catches a sample of produced fluid and retains the sample at the downhole pressure of the interval at the instant that the hydraulic valve is closed. The valves of the Sampler are opened and closed by the movement of a mandrel extending from the hydraulic valve.

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Extension Joint

1006 - Extension Joint

The Extension Joint is used to allow free travel of the workstring. This allows operators to get a good indication of hole drag in deviated holes. The Extension Joint also allows free pipe movement before the Hydraulic Valve is operated.

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Recorder Hanger

1010 - Recorder Hanger

The Recorder Hanger is used to hang a pressure recorder inside a length of spacing or drill pipe (bomb well).

The Single Recorder Hanger can be run at any location within the test string except between the Infl ate Pump and the bottom packer (on an infl ate test).

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Inflate Pump

1015 - Inflate Pump

The Inflate Pump is a down hole piston pump which delivers drilling fluid from the well bore to the inflate packers. The Inflate Pump is activated by rotating the drilling string at approximately 60 R.P.M.

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Suction Screen

1016 - Suction Screen

The Suction Screen filters the larger particles from the drilling mud before it can enter the Inflate Pump.

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Inflate Release System

1017 - Inflate Release System

The Inflate Release System enables multiple inflate tests without having to come out of the hole after each test.

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Upper Packer Assembly

1019 - Upper Packer Assembly

The Upper Packer Assembly is designed to serve four functions.

  1. Mounting of the rubber packer element.
  2. Delivery or removal of drilling mud to the packer elements during the test inflation and deflation process.
  3. Inflation of packer elements to seal the top of the test interval.
  4. Equalization of hydrostatic pressure above and below the test interval.
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Dual Recorder Carrier

1020 - Dual Recorder Carrier

The Dual Recorder Carrier is designed to be run in the test interval and holds two pressure recorders. Recorders are loaded through loosely fitted doors bolted to the sides of the carrier.

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Lower Packer Assembly

1023 - Lower Packer Assembly

The Lower Packer Assembly is designed to serve four functions.

  1. Mounting of the rubber packer element.
  2. Delivery or removal of drilling mud to the packer elements during the test inflation and deflation process.
  3. Inflation of packer elements to seal the bottom of the test interval.
  4. Equalization of hydrostatic pressure above and below the test interval.
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Drag Spring

1024 - Drag Spring

The Drag Spring is designed to resists turning in the hole when the drill string is rotated. This resistance transmits torque to power the Inflate Pump.

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Shut in Valve

2002 - Shut in Valve

The Shut In Valve is used for compression set tests and is designed to take up to two flow periods and two shut in periods. It is run immediately above the Hydraulic Valve. It operates by right hand rotation of the drill pipe.

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Rotating Control Head

2003 - Rotating Control Head

The Full Bore Rotating Control Head is a modular 15,000psi flow head which can be configured with up to 4 valves and 3 flow paths. The solid one-piece center mandrel allows torque to be transferred to the tubing/drill pipe by rotating from above (Top Drive) or below (rotary table) while the flow lines remain stationary.

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Squeeze Tool

2004 - Squeeze Tool

The Squeeze Tool is a check valve that opens to balance tubing to annular pressure when the tubing pressure exceeds annular pressure. This prevents supercharging of the formation in the interval while setting packers or opening the downhole hydraulic valve.

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Safety Joint

2005 - Safety Joint

The Safety Joint provides a means for releasing from a set of tools that are stuck in the hole.

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Conventional Packer

2006 - Conventional Packer

The Conventional Packer contains the telescoping mechanism to compress rubber elements against the formation when weight is applied.

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Hydraulic Jars

2007 - Hydraulic Jars

The Hydraulic Jars allow jarring of the test string to aid in the freeing of downhole tools. The jar provides a temporary resistance that allows the drill pipe to be stretched. When the resistance is release, the drill pipe contracts to deliver the impact and freeing force.

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Bottom Hole Choke

2008 - Bottom Hole Choke

The Bottom Hole Choke is a short sub that can be located to restrict flow downhole through standard fixed chokes.

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Exit / Fill Valve

3000 - Exit / Fill Valve

The Exit / Fill Valve is a single shot annular pressure controlled, sleeve type, circulating valve designed to be used during cased hole testing and perforating operations, where only one circulation phase is required

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Multi-Cycle Circultating Valve

3020 - Multi-Cycle Circultating Valve

The Multi Cycle Circulating Valve is an unlimited multiple cycle, differential pressure activated, circulation valve with five closed positions, one reverse position, and one circulating position. The tool can cycle through this sequence as many times as is required during well operations.

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Multi-Cycle Tester Valve

3030 - Multi-Cycle Tester Valve

The Multi-Cycle Tester Valve is an annulus pressure controlled ball valve designed to allow multiple cycles during cased hole testing and perforating operations.

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Non-Equalizing Tester Valve

3035 - Non-Equalizing Tester Valve

The Non Equalizing Tester Valve (NETV 3035) can be used as an alternative to the Multi-Cycle Tester Valve (MCTV 3030). Both tools use an annulus pressure controlled ball valve to allow multiple cycles during cased hole testing and perforating.

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Single Shot Ball Valve

3040 - Single Shot Ball Valve

The Single Shot Ball Valve is an annular pressure controlled full opening downhole ball valve.

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Gauge Carrier

3050 - Gauge Carrier

The Gauge Carrier has been designed as a single body type carrier capable of housing four electronic memory pressure / temperature gauges capable of monitoring either tubing or annulus pressures.

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Sampler

3070 - Sampler

The Sampler traps a sample of produced fluids and retains the sample at the downhole pressure of the time of capture.

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Hydraulic Jars

3080 - Hydraulic Jars

The Hydraulic Jars allow jarring of the test string to aid in the freeing of downhole tools. The jar provides a temporary resistance that allows the drill pipe to be stretched. When the resistance is released, the drill pipe contracts to deliver the impact and freeing force.

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Pump Through Flapper Valve

3090 - Pump Through Flapper Valve

The PTFV is run in hole with a mandrel holding the flapper valve in the open position. Annular pressure is used to move the mandrel allowing the flapper to act as a check valve. The flapper will shut in the well while retaining the ability to pump through the valve down the tubing.

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Full Bore Hydraulic Tool

3100 - Full Bore Hydraulic Tool

The Full bore hydraulic tool is a mechanically operated ball valve designed to allow multiple open/close cycles during cased hole testing and perforating operations.

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Tension Safety Joint

3110 - Tension Safety Joint

The Tension Safety Joint is a two stage disconnect tool which is run above the packer that allows the tubing to be disconnected from the tool string below it should the need arise.

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R-Type Retrievable Casing Packer

3120 - R-Type Retrievable Casing Packer

The R-Type Retrievable Casing Packer is a compression-set retrievable service packer used for applications such as testing, perforating, squeeze cementing, fracturing, acidizing and other operations.

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Retrievable Casing Packer

3130 - Retrievable Casing Packer

The Retrievable Casing Packer permits unrestricted flow and passage of full gauge wireline tools and accessories with an unrestricted ID, making it ideal for zone isolation, injection, testing, perforating, and production. Retrievable Casing Packer can be set for testing in tension, compression or neutral.

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Slip Joint

3140 - Slip Joint

The Slip Joint is an expansion/contraction compensating tool that accommodates for changes in string length caused by temperature and pressure changes during a drillstem test.

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Shock Tool

3200 - Shock Tool

The shock tool is designed to absorb and dissipate the critical vibrations in the drill string by bit displacement during drilling

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Jet Pump

3500 - Jet Pump

The Jet Pump 3500 is used to provide increased production rates and drawdown through artificial lift.

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Pressure Gauges

4000 - Pressure Gauges

Measure & record Downhole Pressure & Temperature in geothermal wells.

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Floor Manifold

530 - Floor Manifold

The Floor Manifold is a valve arrangement that directs
the flow of the well to three different flow paths.

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Hydraulic / Mechanical Drilling Jar

7080 - Hydraulic / Mechanical Drilling Jar

The hydraulic / mechanical drilling Jar (HMJ) is a double acting jar designed to deliver hydraulic delay when jarring up in direction, and mechanical release when jarring down. The HMJ uses a latch mechanism to keep the jar locked in the neutral position and eliminate unexpected jarring while tripping or racking back in the derrick.

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Stabilizer (Near Bit)

71001 - Stabilizer (Near Bit)

A stabilizer is placed on a drill collar near the bit that is used depending on placement to either maintain the angle of the hole or to change the angle by controlling the point of contact between the hole and the collars.

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Stabilizer (String)

71002 - Stabilizer (String)

A stabilizer is placed on a drill collar near the bit that is used depending on placement to either maintain the angle of the hole or to change the angle by controlling the point of contact between the hole and the collars.

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