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Benefits of Balanced Pressure Drilling

What is the value of being able to drill a well to TD that could not be drilled otherwise?

In a field too difficult, too costly, or just impossible to drill with conventional drilling techniques, known, producible reserves can become stranded simply because they cannot be reached.

We call it "drilling the undrillable" - yeah, we know. It's simple, a bit glib, but true.

Reduce Drilling Cost
Conventional drilling with heavier than needed mud in areas with ballooning, narrow pressure margins, and poor hole cleaning creates more problems than it solves.

Drilling at balance with Automated Pressure Drilling Services helps reduce drililng cost by:

  • Eliminating ballooning
  • Reducing mude weight
  • Reducing mud solids
  • Eliminating losses
  • Increasing ROP
  • Reducing drilling flat time
  • Maintaining borehole stability
  • Reducing reservoir and hole damage
Increase Safety
A critical objective of every drilling project is the safety and health of the people and environment. It is essential to maintain the bottom hole pressure within the prescribed safe limits, at all times, to achieve that objective.

The DAPC System does that by responding fast, accurately, and continuously to changing conditions. It is the only fully automated system with the safety critical, process control technology integrated into a single, high speed network with real-time hydraulics and dynamic backpressure control.

Improve Well Control
Our DAPC system helps mitigate, often time eliminate the risks that can lead to potentially critical well control events, even when the drilling is at its most vulnerable - when the rig pumps are off.

Around the clock dynamic control, constant pressure, and stable equivalent circulating density keeps drilling pressure on the line so you can keep your well in control and on time.

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