Why Your Drilling Equipment Needs To Be Accurate & Consistent

If not for drilling, the billions of vehicles will not move on the roads to bring the world to a standstill. It helps in both laying the roads and finding the fuel for not only the vehicles move but also the flights to fly. To find the fuel drilling in deep oceans, rock-solid mountains and others is essential. Hence, without the drilling equipment being accurate and consistent, there is no active drilling.

Understand The Types Of Drillings And Why Do We Need Them

Drilling started as early as 2000 BC by the Chinese to find coal as an energy source. But only for the past nearly two centuries after the first spring pole drilling in 1806, drilling and its equipment have evolved with technology’s help. Four common drilling types for exploration of oil wells and others include:

• Conventional drilling is the most traditional way of drilling used until now to drill down straight to find the exploring material vertically
• Horizontal drilling like driven bits takes a sharp turn to drill horizontally along the exploring material, now done as two horizontal bores with few meters apart
• Slant drilling is drilling at an angle of 30 to 45 degrees perpendicular to minimize the surface environment disturbances to harmonize with conserving the environment
• Directional drilling is where the direction and depth of drilling can change several times during an exploration

Reasons for the drilling equipment to be accurate & consistent

For all the above types of drilling and equipment, the reasons for them to be accurate and consistent include:

• Finding the right samples to determine the nature of the subsurface for drilling purposes
• Any inferior drilling equipment will spoil the whole exploration process
• To find the oil or others it is necessary to start with the right equipment to lead to it accurately
• Consistency of the equipment is essential to complete the exploration successfully

Drilling equipment for exploration

The evolution of exploration by different types and equipment has made it possible to have enough fuel. Drilling equipment is of hydraulic, pneumatic and others to include:

• Hand-held drills with compressors & hydraulic power unit
• Petrol driven drills
• Rigs of different types and sizes
• Tunnelling & UG mining equipment

Various techniques for exploration

Before conducting development drilling, an exploration drilling is essential to obtain the temperature measurements, rock samples, and retrieve fluid samples for chemical analysis. The following are the different exploratory techniques:

• Core holes
• Exploratory wells
• Thermal gradient holes
• Slim holes

Hence, to start drilling extensively, it is vital to have an exploration drilling with the appropriate drilling equipment that needs to be accurate and consistent.