The industry's largest heat flux in a coiled tubing package.
A field-proven technology, delivered as a turn-key system, from the industry leader in downhole electric heating. Lightning fast deployment — install, pull out, repeat.
WHY HOT-TUBE
It's all about heat flux.
Cable temperature doesn't matter if you can't deliver the necessary thermal energy to the reservoir. If the heat flux is too small, regardless of the cable surface temperature, the expected benefits of electric heating won't materialize. Don't be fooled by imitators — put the industry's biggest heat flux to work in your application.
Access new reservoirs
Deploy where steam can't reach — thin pay zones, depleted pressure, caprock integrity issues, shallow wells
Improve oil production
Optimize heavy oil recovery with precise, controllable thermal energy delivery. Integrate solvents, diluents, acids, or water through independent delivery lines.
Lower capital costs
Coiled tubing package eliminates need for conventional heater installations. Rapid deployment and reusability drive down per-well costs.
Eliminate water usage
Electric heating requires zero water — no steam generation, no water treatment, no disposal wells.
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Direct electric heating produces significantly lower emissions than steam-based thermal recovery. Cleaner operations, smaller surface footprint.
Technical Deep-Dive
Explore the engineering behind Hot-Tube™.
- Hot-Tube is packaged in coiled tubing for the ultimate downhole heating system
- Lightning fast deployment
- Install, pull out, repeat as necessary
- Eliminate heater element damage during installation
- Isolate heating elements from harsh reservoir fluids during operation
- Easily integrate fiber optic, temperature and pressure sensors
- Reduce power to surface area ratio to prevent coking and thermal runaway failures
- Inject solvents, diluents, acids or water to optimize your process through integrated independent delivery lines
- Custom Surface Power and Control Equipment
- Skid deployed combining commercially available SCRs, transformers, and power conditioning equipment with proprietary control modules
- In-house design from the circuit board up
- Purpose built for your application, flexible enough to evolve with your project's needs
- Remote, real-time monitoring included
Contact us to discuss your unique application
Each Hot-Tube system is custom engineered
Contact Engineering →Applications
SAGD Preheat
Pre-heat SAGD wells to establish thermal communication between well pairs
SAGD Infill Wells
Accelerate infill well performance with electric heating
Dispersed Solvent Vapor Drainage
Patent pending process combining electric heat with solvent injection
Steam Flood Optimization
Boost steam quality and optimize steam flood patterns
Heavy Oil Production
Optimize with the PEHPER simulator
CHOPS Optimization
Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand enhancement
Low Pressure Applications
Where steam is not practical: caprock integrity, geological unconformities, depleted pressure, shallow wells, thin pay zones
Ecosystem
Hot-Tube works in tandem with Petrospec's monitoring systems. Sensor-Tube ESP provides real-time temperature, pressure, and vibration data during heating operations. Sensor-Line delivers continuous DTS profiling to monitor reservoir response. Power-Tube enables rapid pump changes for artificial lift in heated wells.
Ready to get started with Hot-Tube™?
Contact our engineering team to discuss your application.