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Gaia Earth Sciences Ltd is a recipient of one of the first King’s Awards for Enterprise: Innovation, recognising its role in the development of the Gaia Cable Protection System (GCPS). GCPS uses Wireline Standoffs for preventing wireline logging cables, which are used in oil and gas exploration, from becoming trapped and stuck in the wells during the wireline logging operations. Elgin-based Gaia Earth Sciences Limited was founded in July 2003 by Stuart Huyton to offer the oil and gas industry quality assurance services in the domain of formation evaluation during wireline logging operations. This is the process whereby physical data from the subsurface rocks is recorded in order to determine the presence, location and producibility of hydrocarbons. In 2007, Gaia started an R&D programme to solve the long-standing (global) problem of cable sticking during wireline logging operations. These sticking events may quickly escalate to cause multi-million-dollar losses for a client. This research resulted in the system now known as the Gaia Cable Protection System (GCPS), which was conceived and invented by Dr Guy Wheater, the Gaia Group Technical Manager. In 2011, field testing of the nascent GCPS commenced in the Gulf of Mexico with great success. The system was then developed and Gaia Earth Sciences Ltd
Founder and Director Stuart Huyton holding the Mk I Wireline Standoff
improved through six years of continuous R&D before being handed over to Gaia Earth Technologies Limited for commercial development. Gaia Earth Sciences Limited previously won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade in 2012. GAIA EARTH SCIENCES LTD Phayrelands, Cummingston, Elgin IV30 5XZ Tel: 01343 830617 • info@gaiaearthgroup.com www.gaiaearthgroup.com company/gaia-earth-sciences-limited
A Wireline crew installing the Gaia Cable Protection System standoffs on a rig floor in Malaysia
Gaia EarthTechnologies Ltd
Gaia Earth Technologies Ltd is a recipient of one of the first King’s Awards for Enterprise: Innovation, recognising its role in the commercialisation of the Gaia Cable Protection System (GCPS). In 2017, Gaia Earth Sciences Limited, having established a solid track record with compelling results for the GCPS, launched Gaia Earth Technologies Limited to focus on the rollout of the GCPS and build other technical solutions that offer safer, quicker and cleaner wireline logging operations for clients. GCPS was conceived and invented by Dr Guy Wheater, the Gaia Group Technical Manager. Gaia has generated 36 patents with many world firsts, such as the first cable-mounted acquisition system, the first downhole digital odometer and the first global sticking database with the most advanced wireline modelling package in the industry. Seven of the top ten oil and gas clients worldwide now use GCPS as a critical resource to enhance their well design and delivery and to ensure safe and efficient wireline logging operations, whilst reducing their CO2 emissions significantly. Together, Gaia Earth Sciences Ltd and Gaia Earth Technologies Ltd form the Gaia Earth Group. There
are over 30 consultants working for the Group, based in locations worldwide from Thailand to Europe, the US Gulf Coast and Latin America. GAIA EARTHTECHNOLOGIES LTD Phayrelands, Cummingston, Elgin IV30 5XZ Tel: 01343 830617 • info@gaiaearthgroup.com www.gaiaearthgroup.com company/gaia-earth-sciences-limited
An array of Standoffs ready for the Gaia Cable Protection System installation
Gaia Group Technical Manager and inventor of the Gaia Cable Protection System, with the latest commercial version of the Wireline Standoff
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