Articles Tagged with ''drill bits''

Rotary bits can handle soft to medium soil formations. But when you find yourself between a rock and a hard place, you need specialized equipment designed to power through rock formations.

Company says bits offer high fluid volume, low pressures in soft rock.

Polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits have been around for years. Now, they are just getting popular in the water well industry.

Reading the signs that the bit sends you becomes crucial to telling what you are drilling in, and how to treat the bit.

In Ask Brock episode 29, host Brock Yordy has a swell time advising a driller on tactics for clay holes.

New CFO Stickney has 25-plus years of financial experience.

Texas A&M’s SPARC project boosts ROP using plasma bursts.

The other night, I got into a discussion with a group of well drillers that centered around bits or hole openers backing off in broken, rough-running formations. The reasons — and cures — are pretty straightforward, but often overlooked.