particle drilling technologies

...with millions of reasons why it would fail.   But a successful particle drilling system does offer many potential advantages for drilling in all types of formations. If the initial system gets 3X drilling speed improvement, then just how much improvement will there be..., I look forward with great interest to the future of particle drilling. It is time to see how well the new ...

... they have a working PID system providing 2X and above improvement in drilling speed, they would have done it.   Start-up companies like Particle Drilling typically don't have what appear on paper to be ... line-up of people managing them. I've checked out several of them in the past and most are similar to Particle Drilling. Look at the most famous one of all - MSFT. ...

... World Oil gives some good background on the technical challenge of particle injection. They call it the "single largest obstacle". They ... for other neccessary parts of the system, so the decline in required power for particle injection is even larger than this number. The required ... the savings in drill bit costs. High speed particle injection fractures the rock and makes the job of the bit...

... for next Test every single well EnCana is drilling is underbalanced. They have been doing this process ... travis peak only, with 10-15 rigs, drilling a well approximatley every 90 days. (so do... There are risks associated with the process, but after drilling 30 wells, EnCana probably has a good ...only added "cost" would be the associated risk with drilling this way. PDRT will not be able to drill ...

... their product went to market?" I said I knew of a company with a new drilling process that was around $4.00 The Company is PDRT (Particle Drilling Technologies) I'm not pumping them. I wouldn't touch it. But ... makes it to market it will have limited applications. It will not revolutionize drilling. Yet their investors have hung around for 3 1/2 years and ...

.... Personally, I have a feeling they will announce in August that ECA decided to cancel their contract (b/c it's tired of PID delays and is looking to other technologies to speed through hard rock drilling). PDRT should not have put all of their eggs into one ECA basket. thread start

... test over a year ago. Back then, Encana was drilling at relatively slow ROP. Since they have began their underbalanced drilling program, they have doubled (at least) their ROP...in their next test. (if they want to beat conventional drilling by a factor of 3X) Of course, I'm sure they would..., this page contains some other good information about encana's drilling program in east texas.

  Recs: 0 Question on horizontal drilling while we wait. For those better acquainted with the drill process. My understanding is that horizontal drilling starts with a vertical hole and then turns horizontal. If this is correct then; 1. Does the vertical portion go ...

  Recs: 0 Re: Question on horizontal drilling while we wait. Brooklyn, Depending on what area of the world you're in depends on where the vertical or horizontal sections ... in the future. I have to say though... all these new horizontal plays are already covered up with drilling rigs doing vertical wells. If PDT had a shot at a horizontal well in this area, the fact that...

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