Expro Excellence
Well Construction Drilling Technologies
HI TOOL® Harmonic Isolation Tool results in successful coring run in West Texas
Customer challenges
  • A major operator sought a solution to retrieve quality core samples
  • An operator requested the 800 series HI TOOL® Harmonic Isolation Tool to mitigate the harmful vibration harmonics observed when drilling a lateral 8 1/2’’ section. The goal was to protect the MWD tool while also increasing the overall efficiency of the drilling operation
Expro Excellence
  • The HI TOOL® was positioned above the core barrels in the bottom hole assembly (BHA) to reduce non-productive time (NPT), increase efficiency by minimizing vibrations and improving core quality, and eliminate unnecessary trips due to partially filled core barrels
Value to client
  • The use of the HI TOOL® in the 8 1/2’’ section successfully retrieved quality core samples. The customer ran the HI TOOL® on four of the five planned coring runs with a starting coring depth of 9,225 ft. The run without the HI TOOL® was used as a data point to compare runs and showed a less steady rate of (ROP) compared to runs with the HI TOOL®
  • Average ROP of 20.5 ft/h
  • Successfully retrieved quality core samples
  • Trial resulted in future runs with the customer
Contact

HI TOOL® Harmonic Isolation Tool results in successful coring run in West Texas

In Brief
The HI TOOL® was positioned above the core barrels in the bottom hole assembly (BHA) to reduce non-productive time (NPT), increase efficiency by minimizing vibrations and improving core quality, and eliminate unnecessary trips due to partially filled core barrels
Product Line
  • Well Construction
  • Drilling Technologies
Customer challenges
  • A major operator sought a solution to retrieve quality core samples
  • An operator requested the 800 series HI TOOL® Harmonic Isolation Tool to mitigate the harmful vibration harmonics observed when drilling a lateral 8 1/2’’ section. The goal was to protect the MWD tool while also increasing the overall efficiency of the drilling operation
Expro Excellence
  • The HI TOOL® was positioned above the core barrels in the bottom hole assembly (BHA) to reduce non-productive time (NPT), increase efficiency by minimizing vibrations and improving core quality, and eliminate unnecessary trips due to partially filled core barrels
Value to client
  • The use of the HI TOOL® in the 8 1/2’’ section successfully retrieved quality core samples. The customer ran the HI TOOL® on four of the five planned coring runs with a starting coring depth of 9,225 ft. The run without the HI TOOL® was used as a data point to compare runs and showed a less steady rate of (ROP) compared to runs with the HI TOOL®
  • Average ROP of 20.5 ft/h
  • Successfully retrieved quality core samples
  • Trial resulted in future runs with the customer
Contact

For further information, please contact:

wellconstruction@expro.com