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Reach your reservoir with more efficiency and flexibility.
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CASING DRILLING is innovation in action technology that gets casing to bottom by circulating, reciprocating and rotating simultaneously. Every well is drilled and cased at the same time. By using the full capabilities of your rigs top drive, the system is the solution: CASING DRILLING is a proven process after millions of feet drilled, on- and offshore, straight, directional and horizontal wells. Because of its application flexibility, CASING DRILLING can successfully execute anything that can be accomplished with conventional drilling, while delivering operating and labor cost savings, capital investment reductions and faster time-to-targets. With CASING DRILLING, casing is always on bottom, letting you change your bottom hole assembly (BHA) without a trip. The process requires less drilling fluid, further reducing costs and environmental impact: the mechanical characteristics of the casing plaster cuttings into the face of the bore hole, sealing pores in the formation that contribute to lost circulation. Directional and horizontal applications have been proven on- and offshore. Directional CASING DRILLING has been used successfully in difficult shales in North America; in completing complex 3D North Sea wells; and in drilling extended reach wells further examples of the flexibility and adaptability of CASING DRILLING in a wide variety of hole angles, with on-bottom ROPs equal to or better than conventional methods.
With the ability to rotate and reciprocate while circulating uid, CASING DRILLING can accomplish what conventional drilling can and more.
CASING DRILLING is an engineered solution for dicult drilling situations. With surface rotation rates of 120 rpm for 9 5/8 and 13 3/8casing, (150 rpm for 7), casing becomes a very eective drill string.
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The simplicity of CASING DRILLING is one of the main reasons it is attractive to many E & P operators. CASING DRILLING requires few adaptations to a standard drilling rig and in most cases can be accomplished in just a few hours. Basics include a top drive and TESCOs Casing Drive System (CDS) that together serve as the workhorse for CASING DRILLING operations. Installed just below the top drive the CDS improves operational efficiencies through its ability to circulate, rotate and reciprocate the casing string simultaneously. Depending on your drilling objective, TESCO has tools, processes and people to get you to bottom.
Simplicity and adaptability are hallmarks of the proven CASING DRILLING solution. It requires few adaptations to a standard drilling rig in most cases, just a few hours of rig-up time. From basic casing running procedures to complex drilling scenarios, CASING DRILLING gets the job done with superior efficiency. For example, for simply driving casing to the bottom, CASING DRILLING requires only a Casing Drive System (CDS) attached to a top drive and a
reaming shoe to work casing to the bottom. The CDS can rotate and reciprocate the casing with continual fluid circulation. When the goal is to drill an original straight hole, TESCO professionals replace the reaming shoe with an expendable bit or drillable casing bit and use either a liner with drillpipe or casing to drill a new borehole with casing always on bottom. TESCO has perfected and proven retrievable CASING DRILLING systems. Drillpipe or wireline can be deployed for multiple bit runs in applications where either straight or directional/steerable wells are required or straight holes that requires multiple bit changes. The exclusive TESCO Drill Lock Assembly (DLA), used as a part of the BHA, plays a key role in the retrieval of tools from the bottom. When setting the DLA, tools are run in either on drillpipe or wireline. Stop dogs locate the BHA and create a landing and lock profile. Once pressure is applied, axial locks are set and the running tool is released while rotation engages torsional locks. Retrieval is accomplished using pressure to engage DLA, open bypass and release axial locks. CASING DRILLING can be accomplished on nearly any rig with a top drive. Our tools and people both work toward keeping casing on bottom throughout the drilling process.
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Ability to Pump, Rotate and Work Casing to the Bottom CASING DRILLING with a Drillable or Expendable Bit
CDS Reaming Shoe CDS Expendable or Drillable Bit Liner with Drill Pipe or Casing to the Surface While Drilling CDS Drill Lock Assembly BHA Liner with Casing to the Surface While Drilling CDS Drill Lock Assembly BHA Liner with Casing to the Surface While Drilling
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Drilling Straight and Directional or Steerable Holes. Tools Retrievable with Wireline.
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Drilling Straight and Directional or Steerable Holes. Tools Retrievable with Drill Pipe.
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TESCOs Casing Drive System minimizes rig personnel, improving productivity while enhancing work site safety.
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CASING DRILLING has been proven to reduce NPT while improving drilling eciencies. Lost circulation, stuck pipe, kicks and sloughing shale are all minimized by CASING DRILLING.
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Lost circulation resulted in two unsuccessful attempts to reach bottom using conventional drilling methods. The CASING DRILLING process, used in the third attempt, encountered no lost circulation and delivered a viable wellbore to the operator when drill pipe drilling could not.
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Variations in the straightness of casing smear drill cuttings, sealing pores in formations in what is known as the Plastering Eect.
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Casing coupling is forced against the bore wall as it advances into the borehole.
As mud is smeared into the formation, lter cake builds up on the borehole wall.
Filter cake and cuttings are plastered against the borehole wall by the coupling, sealing porous formations .
An added benefit of the CASING DRILLING process is the Plastering Effect, or smearing, caused by continuous trowelling of the wellbore wall by the casing. Filter cake is smeared into the wall and is not scraped off by bit passage or tool joint impacts. Cuttings are ground up more finely. Generally, fewer cuttings return to the surface; instead they are smeared into the wall, further strengthening the wellbore which offers the additional benefit of improved well control and stability. Circulation losses are reduced even with higher Equivalent Circulating Densities (ECD). As demonstrated by the CASING DRILLING process, smearing has a particularly good effect when drilling through medium- and highdensity rock. The Plastering Effect coupled with industry best practices leads to curing lost circulation and enables continuous drilling. Of all the benefits associated with CASING DRILLING cost savings, safety, efficiency one of the primary benefits is this: In many cases, you can save at least one trip even in zones where lost circulation persists. That key benefit alone gives operators a case to consider CASING DRILLING. CASING DRILLING reduces incremental costs. Many drilling engineers plan and budget their drilling operations to account for all activities positive and negative. If a particular field typically encounters trouble zones, the drilling engineer will plan and budget for those trouble zones accordingly. Preventing and recovering from trouble is often anticipated so as not to show up as an unscheduled event, but as a routine drilling operation. The routine can add ever-increasing incremental costs to operators, especially those who are trying to tap even more difficult reservoirs.
Sometimes routine operations are activities, or costs, that could be eliminated with a different drilling system. Lost circulation and well control incidents are almost completely eliminated in wells drilled using CASING DRILLING. Wells that encounter a weak zone before or after a high-pressure zone while drilling with drillpipe often find it difficult to balance the lost circulation potential in the in the upper zone with well influxes in the lower zone, particularly when tripping out of the hole with drill pipe. TESCO encourages operators to drill ahead through lost circulation when CASING DRILLING. Just as one might plan for a short trip or a conditioning trip as a prudent practice, a certain amount of time might be budgeted to deal with problems relating to lost circulation in environments where it is likely to occur. Identifying these hidden costs can make CASING DRILLING even more attractive and drilling budgets extend further.
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Almost any on- or offshore drilling rig can be adapted to use the CASING DRILLING technology. Converted conventional rigs lose none of their capabilities. Portable TESCO Top Drives can be easily installed on rigs without top drives. The TESCO Casing Drive System (CDS), integral to CASING DRILLING, is the industrys proven workhorse for getting casing on bottom. The versatility gained by conversion to a dualpurpose rig makes it suitable for use on a wider range of wells and increases opportunities. TESCO has a wide range of equipment for the CASING DRILLING process to meet any drilling challenge. Together with knowledgeable and experienced TESCO drilling professionals, theres no downhole environment off limits no missed opportunities for more efficient, more successful projects.
Axial Locks
Directional Tools
Tool Locator
Underreamer
Torque Locks
Wear-resistant Couplings
TESCO produces wear-resistant accessories to protect casing against excessive abrasions during drilling. Wear Bands are tungsten carbide coated rings installed below the coupling to protect the connection. Wear Sleeves protect the joint from undue wear and prevent buckling near the bottom of the drill string
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Warthog
The TESCO Warthog, our exemplary Casing Running and Reaming Tool (CRRT), helps get your casing to TD despite compromising hole conditions such as bridges, ledges, doglegs, sloughing formations and deviated holes. The Warthog combines hydraulic and mechanical energy to break through downhole obstructions and a nosecone profile that cleans and circulates simultaneously. Three spiral helix external blades help condition the hole and provide centralization for cementing.
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With hundreds of intervals and millions of feet of hole, proven in vertical, horizontal and under-balanced wells, on and oshore, and in more than 30 geological basins around the world, CASING DRILLING is changing how wells are drilled.
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Tesco Corporation is an industry leader in the development and commercialization of drilling technology and services. The Corporations mission is to change the way wells are drilled. By reducing drilling risk and increasing operational efficiency, TESCO generates real value for its customers. TESCOs powerful combination of engineering and service excellence is provided by experienced and dedicated field personnel. Coupled with a passion for innovation, TESCO offers a comprehensive toolbox of proven technologies and delivers superior solutions at the wellbore. With a vision spanning the crown to the bit, from the desert to deepwater, around the world TESCO technology provides Better Ways to The BottomTM.
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