HYBRID DRILL BIT TECHNOLOGY; A OPTIMUM &

COST
EFFECTIVE SOLUTION TO MITIGATE DRILLING
CHALLENGES IN
PAKISTAN
Shehroz khan
Category -B.S
Mehran university of engineering and technology
jamshoro
 Hybrid Drill Bit
Hybrid means something that is the product of mixing two or more
different things.

Hybrid drill bit is a fusion of roller cone and PDC technology to produce a
hybrid bit.
 DESIGN
Roller cone bits
Roller cone bits comprise one, two, three cones or four having teeth sticking out
of them.

PDC BIT
piece matrix bodies with no moving parts having cutters.
cutters are synthetic diamond disks.

Hybrid bit
Achieved by using a basic PDC bit design and replacing the secondary blades on
the periphery with rolling cutters equipped with tungsten carbide inserts.
 DESIGN
Roller cone PDC Hybird bit

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Problems in drilling
Geologically heterogeneous (mixed) formations pose a significant challenge to drillers in terms of drilling
performance.

Shale and other soft and plastically behaving rocks favor the use of PDC bits.

hard and abrasive sandstone with hard cement stringers favors roller cone bits.

Low ROP
low Drilling rate

Quickly wear up

Fixed-cutter and roller-cone designs have been contradictory in nature, and operators were compelled to
sacrifice one characteristic for another between the two designsusually ROP vs durability.
Hybrid bit
the focus of hybrid bit technology has been on increased durability,
reduced bit erosion and longer runs whether drilling the vertical,
curve or lateral section.

Hybrid bits use a rolling torque-management system, which

combines fixed-cutter and roller-cone cutting elements to bridge
the application and performance gap between the two solutions.
 A hybrid bit allows the maintenance of overall penetration rate (ROP)
at much higher levels than that of a roller cone or PDC bit alone.

Avoidance of the necessity of tripping for bits due to formation

changes or for premature bit wear is clearly advantageous.

Leveraging the cutting superiority of PDCs in soft formations and the

rock-crushing strength and stability of roller cones in hard or
interbedded formations, the hybrid bit has the potential to maintain
higher overall rate of penetration (ROP) for more footage than a
roller cone or PDC could individually.
PERFOMANCE RESULT
Experience from the USA
drilled successfully interbedded and chert applications with single
bit run lengths extended by more than 200% where up to a 35%
reduction in drilling time has been achieved in heterogeneous
formations.

In Brazil a interval of geologically interbedded sandstone and shale

sequences was drilled in which the results shows that it drilled 90%
faster and 20% farther than offset bit performances. And 44%
decrease in total drilling time has been achieved.
ADVANTAGES OF HYBRID DRILL BIT OVER
OTHER BITS

Drilled more than twice as fast as premium roller-cone bits

Excellent directional performance on steerable motor

More efficient drilling using less WOB than roller-cones

reduced vibration tendencies which results minimal wear

APPLICATIONS IN PAKISTAN
Pakistan's total sedimentary basinal area is
approximately 827,000 sq km.

Historical data suggests that only 10-20% of the total

sedimentary area of Pakistan has been explored

In pakistan the large chunk of formations are hard

and hetrogenous
 DRILLING
EPOCH FORMATIONS CHARACTERSTICS BIT
PERFOMANCE
Habib Rahi The Eocene rocks are ROLLER CONE BIT
represented very
Limestone
hetrogenous moderate ROP
(HRL)
EOCENE lithological assemblage wear up quickly
(e.g. Mari Field)
( shales, Limestone,
evaporate,
Sui Main PDC BIT
coal and minor
Limestone sandstone)
Low ROP
(e.g. Sui Field) wear up at moderate
rate.
Period Formations Drilling charachterstics
GORU ROLLER CONE/PDC
(Badin
area fields,
Drilling rate in Cretaceous sediments is generally
Sanghar area
Cretaceous fields, Sawan,
low because of their compactness corresponding
to their age and the extent of overburden they
Miano, Kadanwai,
have been subjected to average
(In Pakistan it covers Mari Deep and
rate of penetration ranges from 0.5m/hour to
280,000sq.km; other fields)
7m/hour depending on how much older is
52% of the total
sediment. Very hard and abrasive sections of Pab
prospective
sedimentary basins.)
PAB sandstone results in undergauged hole.

SANDSTONE
(BHIT and
ZAMAMA field)
 The above data shows that Pakistani formations are less
rooler/pdc friendly as they worn them
quickly and make their rate of penetration very low hence it
creates very long drilling day curve.
To cope this problem a hybrid drill bit can play a vital role in
the drilling department of Pakistan
by making it economical which can increase the rate of
exploration.
Objective
Petroleum industry is all the game of economics and the drilling is very
expensive Process.

It is always the desire to have a optimum drilling practice to arrive the

target most economically method but with safety.

For having a optimum drilling practices there are many factors which
has to be controlled but the foremost factor is the Right selection of
the Drilling bit with respect to the formation.
 The perfomance of bit lies on following two
factors

Depends on two main groups

Formation
Drilling parameters
 FORMATION
Local stresses
Rock compaction
Mineralogical content

DRILLING
Weight on bit and torque
ROP
Hydraulic parameters
Bit condition