24 MARCH 2024 WorldWide Drilling Resource® Another First From INTRODUCING - The “KIT” Half Pint 1” - 3” pipe .82 inches Standard CP 2” - 36” Pipe 1.5 inches Fisheye 184-Degree Side & Down Views in One Picture 1.82 inches TDS Camera On Screen Temp. Conductivity/TDS PH Litmus test strips 406-853-7867 Making sure you have all the cameras necessary at your jobsite - no going back for a different look. All Well-Vu products come complete with a 30-month warranty. Say you saw this ad in WorldWide Drilling Resource® for an extra 6 months - Giving you a full 36-month warranty! wellvu.com Bit Guidance System Reduces Drilling Time Adapted from Information by Helmerich & Payne, Inc. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (H&P) uses innovative technology to meet the increasing demands of the drilling industry. One of their popular products is the H&P Bit Guidance System for the horizontal directional drilling (HDD) market. The H&P Bit Guidance System for HDD is designed to overcome the challenges, obstacles, and risks associated with drilling in today’s high-cost and complex unconventional wells. The company uses a proprietary computerized system to weigh HDD decisions as drilling is performed in real time. One company utilizing the system is Hunt Oil. The company was drilling several wells in the Permian Basin in Upton County, Texas, with identical bit and motor profiles and a lateral length between 10,300 and 10,700 feet, all within a three-mile radius. Inconsistencies in toolface orientation and precision were causing long slide times and the company was not reaching the maximum footage in their target geological zone. With so many variables for a drill operator to consider and then react to in real time - it was clear technology was needed to empower the drill operator to be able to work more efficiently and without so much manual effort. H&P recommended an integrated autonomous solution to help reduce drilling time and slide percentage, while delivering a smoother, more accurate wellbore. With H&P’s Bit Guidance System, the operator was able to employ advanced computer algorithms to make steering decisions automatically, with more consistency, speed, and reliability than human HDD operators alone. This technology helped remove variability around the operator’s decision making, reducing the chance for significant variations in performance. The intelligence from the Bit Guidance System is automatically executed by AutoSlide® technology, an automated digital control module designed to continuously compensate for formation variability and the effects of reactive torque. The operator compared the performance outcomes from wells drilled with the slide control module to similar wells drilled without it, and found on average, the wells with H&P technology witnessed a 14% decrease in the time it took to drill the lateral section. The primary reason for the reduction in drilling time was due to a reduction in the sliding percentage in the later section, an outcome created from more precise toolface control. With sliding rates of penetration (ROP) much lower than rotating ROPs, reductions in slide percentage not only led to a less crooked well, but also directly lowered costs by reducing drilling time. DIR
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