Customer challenges
- The customer was looking to reduce drilling time and enhance the efficiency of the well construction in a shallow-water exploration well
Expro Excellence
- Expro provided hydraulic and torque and drag engineering analysis
- Expro was able to perform the drilling operations with a robust hydraulic casing running tool (CRT) FA-1 – 14”
- Expro provided CwD service to drill and case the hole, simultaneously
Value to client
- We reached TD 17 hours ahead of the customer schedule without any NPT and managed to save costs for the customer
- Drilling through hard stingers and managed to case and cement the hole section in a single trip, without mobilizing a full drilling BHA and its related consumable component
- Utilization of Expro’s Tubular Running Services’ FA-1 Hydraulic CRT enabled a seamless drilling process from remote pick up of casing from the V-Door, connector make-up and torque monitoring, fill-up, reciprocation and drilling
- The FA-1’s intelligent interlock system, providing safety interlock and remote driller visibility of status of the spider, the CRT, single joint manipulator, and single-joint elevator reduced manual handling and kept personnel away from the red zone, while enhancing communication between the drilling and casing crews
