With Automated Pressure Drilling our customers maintain dynamic control of annular pressure in formations with narrow pressure margins, or where potential kick / loss scenarios exist.

We offer pressure control technology that includes an accurate real-time hydraulics model operating around the clock to deliver a continuous stream of pressure data that allows us to track fluid density and rheology, annular hydraulic friction and manage surface annular backpressure.

A high speed network connects the hydraulics model to an automated control system that continuously adjusts the surface backpressure to mantain the bottomhole pressure as close to balance as needed to avoid fracturing the formation or taking a kick.

Instead of drilling overbalanced and fighting tight downhole pressure conditions, at high costs and often without success, operators can drill at balance and more easily maneuver through pressure windows too narrow for conventional pressure control.