Applications Engineering Course

FY2001

The contents of this presentation

are for training purposes and
Drill Bit Technology: internal use ONLY and are NOT to
be used for external use or
Fixed Cutter customer presentations, as they
may contain sensitive information.
 Lesson Outline
 Nomenclature

 Cutting Action

 Blade, cutter, & pad layouts

 Bottom hole patterns

 Cutter Technology
 Fixed Cutter Bit Features
Profile

PDC
Cutters
Gauge

Junk Slot

Bit Breaker
Slot

API Threaded
Pin
FM / FS2000: F.A.S.T.
Matrix / Steel
F orce Balancing
A symmetric Blade Layout
S piraled Blades
T racking Cutters
 The FM2000 Series
Matrix body technology utilizing Ring Claw
cutter technology maximizes performance.
 The FS2000 Series
New steel body technology advances PDC
bit performance and efficiency.
PDC Cutting Action = Shearing
Asymmetric Blade Layout
Spiraled Blades & Gage Pads

Straight Spiraled
Blades and Pads Blades and Pads
 Cutter Layouts

Standard Set - Track Set -

50 Cutters 50 Cutters
 Bottom Hole Patterns

Standard Cutter Bottom Tracking Cutter Bottom

Hole Pattern Hole Pattern

Little resistance to lateral Scalloped bottom hole pattern

forces with the standard is created by tracking cutters
cutter layout
Impact Arrestors

Impact Arrestors
provide stabilization
to both the axial and
lateral modes of
vibration. The
impact arrestors are
positioned directly
behind a preceding
PDC cutter.
Low Torque Gage Pad Design

Rounded Edges

Low Friction Carbide

Ring Claw Cutter Technology
TM

Patented Ring Claw

cutters, compared to
standard PDC cutters,
have triple the volume of
diamond, making them
more abrasion resistant,
and up to four times more
impact resistant.
 Deep Ring Claw Cutter Technology

 The next step beyond Ring Claw

 Little or no impact damage
 Wear generally confined to
the diamond table
 Increased life
 Increased reusability
 No apparent sacrifice in performance
C-Scan Transducer
 Computer Generated Graphical
Representation of C-Scan Readings
 Cutter Rake Angles

Back Rake Side Rake

Side Rake

Back Rake

Bit Center
 Application of PDC Bits
 Geological knowledge essential
 Offset well information & bit records
 Enhanced selection process using offset well
log Analysis / GeoMechanics
 Bit selection should meet actual criteria
necessary to fail specific rock types and
satisfy cleaning requirements
 Potential PDC Applications
 Long shale, mudstone or claystone sections, sands,
chalk, limestone, dolomite, salts and anhydrite
 Gumbo shales with oil based mud
 Researched sandstone intervals
 Absence of hard, well cemented, angular abrasive
sands
 Absence of chert, pyrite, quartzite
 Motor/turbine drilling (high RPM)
 Summary
 PDC cuts rock with a shearing action
 Cutters exist in a variety of shapes/sizes

19mm, 13mm, 10.5mm, 8mm
 Consider: Blade, cutter, & gauge layouts
 Consider nozzle configurations, hydraulics
 PDC is prone to damage from vibrations
 Geological knowledge is essential for bit selection