Customer challenges
- Drill out of 20” shoe-tracks with 16” drill ahead BHAs in the past had resulted in substantial ILT and NPT. This drove dedicated 17 1⁄2” clean out trips prior to 16” drill ahead
Expro Excellence
- Clinical execution SeaCure® cement job delivering low risk high value cementing operation and rapid low risk under-gauge drill- ahead
Value to client
- Drilled 20” shoe out under-gauge with out clean-out run, saving 12 hours
- Bit drilled to TD with no issues
- Cement confirmed back at seabed 360bbls in to a 571bbls job
- Solid casing pressure test after cement job before BOP installation
- Saved cement head equipment and personnel plus cost of SSR plug sets
- No BHA failures in next section
