In this case study, an oil well was operated until failure with 20 joints of new boronized tubing installed just above the pump with new untreated L80 tubing installed above the boronized tubing. A 24-arm caliper measuring tool on a wireline was used to measure wall loss from the bottom of the tubing string to the surface. The twenty boronized joints at the bottom of the well were measured to only have 18% average wall loss. The next twenty untreated L80 tubes directly above the boronized tubing were measured to have 40% average wall loss including one tube that had failed due to a rod on tubing hole in tubing failure. This comparison demonstrates that the boronized tubing had less than half of the wall loss compared to untreated tubing operating next to it in the same well. In this case study, an oil well was operated until failure with 20 joints of new boronized tubing installed just above the pump with new untreated L80 tubing installed above the boronized tubing. A 24-arm caliper measuring tool on a wireline was used to measure wall loss from the bottom of the tubing string to the surface. The twenty boronized joints at the bottom of the well were measured to only have 18% average wall loss. The next twenty untreated L80 tubes directly above the boronized tubing were measured to have 40% average wall loss including one tube that had failed due to a rod on tubing hole in tubing failure. This comparison demonstrates that the boronized tubing had less than half of the wall loss compared to untreated tubing operating next to it in the same well.
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