Southern Midland Basin
Tool
6 3/4” XC-AST
Country
USA
Area
Southern Midland
Section
8½” Lateral
BHA
PDC
Objective
Reducing Motor Stalls
and HFTO Wear
The Tomax Anti Stick-Slip Tool (AST) reduces motor wear from stalls. That includes the short invisible stops from High Frequency Torsional Oscillations or HFTO. Triple Crown Resources operating in the Southern Midland Basin implemented AST to save the downhole tools and cut cost from frequent trips:
Results
A Step-Change in Failure-Free Drilling and Long-Run Performance
With AST, almost every other well was suddenly drilled failure free. In the eleven wells before that, no well had been drilled without time and money wasted on failures. To confirm the precision of the statistics, the number of runs with more than 80 hours where compared. This figure was 27% in the reference wells and improved to 67% with AST.
Value
The AST delivered radical improvements in well costs
Non-AST
#Wells
11
Failure free
None
Runs > 80 hours
27%
AST
#Wells
9
Failure free
44%
Runs > 80 hours
67%
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