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CBI tool enhances hole cleaning and ECD management in North Sea
Customer challenges
  • The initial build up was to be performed in the 24” section in the Nordland Group where the angle was to be built up to over 35°and the 20” casing was to be set at 759m MD. Along the consecutive 17½” section, the build up was to be continued to a sail angle of 67.8° over the Utsira and Skade formations.
  • Section TD was planned at 2050m MD in the Undifferentiated Hordaland
  • Offset wells have posed serious problems with wellbore instability and consequential hole cleaning issues
Expro Excellence
  • Based on the unstable formations in the area and high hole angle requirement of over 35°, we recommended to install the 5⅞” series CBI™ Cutting Bed Impellers in the 17½” section
  • The CBI™ tool is a downhole drill string tool used in deviated wells where excessive build-up of cuttings causes drilling issues, typically in hole angles greater than 30°
  • The solution included spacing of one tool per two stands made up to the 5⅞” drill pipe, covering a total length of 1351 meters
Value to client
  • The hydraulic and mechanical dual acting mechanism in the CBI™ tool removed cutting beds efficiently inside the casing and in the open hole without distressing the unstable formation
  • Its specialized design allows for easy removal of cuttings that tend to settle out of the mud in high-angle sections of the wellbore
  • Drilling the 17½” section using Expro’s CBI™ tool showed a trend on both pick-up and slack-off weights, which followed a friction factor of 0.16—nearly matching the predicted factor of 0.15
  • The application of the CBI™ tool in this case also improved ECD control and helped ease tripping and the subsequent 13⅜” casing run, resulting in reduced non-productive time (NPT)
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CBI tool enhances hole cleaning and ECD management in North Sea

In Brief
A North Sea operator sought a solution to remove excessive accumulation of cuttings and manage equivalent circulation density (ECD) in a high angle 17½” section of a well where the formations are renowned to be unstable.
Product Line
Drilling Technologies
Region
Europe and Sub Saharan Africa
Customer challenges
  • The initial build up was to be performed in the 24” section in the Nordland Group where the angle was to be built up to over 35°and the 20” casing was to be set at 759m MD. Along the consecutive 17½” section, the build up was to be continued to a sail angle of 67.8° over the Utsira and Skade formations.
  • Section TD was planned at 2050m MD in the Undifferentiated Hordaland
  • Offset wells have posed serious problems with wellbore instability and consequential hole cleaning issues
Expro Excellence
  • Based on the unstable formations in the area and high hole angle requirement of over 35°, we recommended to install the 5⅞” series CBI™ Cutting Bed Impellers in the 17½” section
  • The CBI™ tool is a downhole drill string tool used in deviated wells where excessive build-up of cuttings causes drilling issues, typically in hole angles greater than 30°
  • The solution included spacing of one tool per two stands made up to the 5⅞” drill pipe, covering a total length of 1351 meters
Value to client
  • The hydraulic and mechanical dual acting mechanism in the CBI™ tool removed cutting beds efficiently inside the casing and in the open hole without distressing the unstable formation
  • Its specialized design allows for easy removal of cuttings that tend to settle out of the mud in high-angle sections of the wellbore
  • Drilling the 17½” section using Expro’s CBI™ tool showed a trend on both pick-up and slack-off weights, which followed a friction factor of 0.16—nearly matching the predicted factor of 0.15
  • The application of the CBI™ tool in this case also improved ECD control and helped ease tripping and the subsequent 13⅜” casing run, resulting in reduced non-productive time (NPT)
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