in high-performance drilling
applications drilling efficiency is the
name of the game with conventional PDC
bits energy is often wasted in the form
of destructive lateral and torsional
vibration hurting your ROP directional
control and potentially your tools and
even your well weather initiated by the
bitch or drill string the vibration at
the bit can quickly cause damage to the
cutters
dulling a bit and causing a trip
fluctuating lateral forces act on the
cutters generating jagged cutting path
and bottom hole pattern impacting and
damaging the cutters against the
formation counter force a patent-pending
technology from Altera Orient's the
cutters to address this problem head-on
the cutters are terrific to use reactive
force from the formation to counter the
lateral forces from the drill string the
counter force cutting structure also
aligns cutters to work together
harnessing that energy to more
efficiently fail the rock the result
much smoother more efficient drilling
and a bit that stays sharper and
trilling faster longer the benefits of
counter force allow more aggressive bit
designs to be used even further reason
like counter falls out drilled the
competition in fact over a million feet
of test runs with counter force in
applications across North America
confirm that all teres new technologies
also vastly improves directional
stability with remarkably smooth to face
controls in vertical tangent
curved and lateral sections field-proven
consistent and reliable when every run
counts that's counter force that's all
Terra