At the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC) in San Antonio, Texas, Weatherford International has released its Revolution rotary-steerable system (RSS).
Revolution RSS provides capabilities for diverse directional drilling applications in complex wellbores. The sensors and telemetry use by the Revolution RSS gives operators a method for drilling from vertical to horizontal in a single run. With the point-the-bit design and real-time geological control, operators can drill in a variety of wellbore environments, including unconventional fields, deepwater fields, damaged and underbalanced formation, and brown fields. The system also allows operators to drill in high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) zones with temperatures exceeding 300°F (149°C), allowing operators to produce wells in the increasingly challenging environments with controlled drilling in long laterals, high-angle curves and parallel vertical sections in a single run.
“Revolution RSS allows single-run drilling of curve and lateral sections, as well as HPHT and high-dogleg applications,” said Etienne Roux, vice president of drilling services at Weatherford. “In the last year and a half, Revolution RSS has drilled 284 vertical-curve-lateral wells in a single run, totaling 2.4 million ft.”
The Revolution RSS is compatible with the full Weatherford suite of logging-while-drilling formation evaluation services, including real-time feedback on tool settings and status.
Image: Revolution RSS/ Weatherford
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