Challenge
Friction and drag along the string limit the weight and torque that reach your bit. What you lose there, you lose everywhere.
The bill comes due on slides, where poor weight transfer stalls the motor and costs you footage.
Stalls your Motor
When too much weight reaches the bit, the motor stalls, and you spend time off bottom restarting the process.
Costs You Tool Face Control
Inconsistent weight transfer makes tool face hard to hold, which puts your directional plan and well placement at risk. You spend time reorienting instead of drilling.
Slows your Footage
Weight and torque lost in the string is footage not optimized. Time is money.
Root Causes
Addressing the Root Causes
Low ROP is rarely a bit problem. Weight and energy leave surface and get spent in the string before they ever reach the bit. Better weight transfer means higher overall ROP, and weight transfer improves when you minimize drag on stabilizers and improve wellbore geometry.
Sharp Edges and Steep Tapers
Most conventional stabilizers were never designed for today's modern drilling challenges. The spiral design, steeper tapers, and a sharp shoulder dig into the wall instead of riding it, and every contact point takes a share of your weight to bit. For vertical drilling, and slower rate of penetration with low string rpms, these tools were utilized for decades and can still be utilized in some application.
A Tortuous, Spiraled Hole
A spiraled hole raises downhole torque and drag, so weight arrives at the bit unevenly, or not at all.
Balling and Packing Off
Cuttings packed around conventional stabilizers choke hole cleaning, and a balled-up string does not transfer weight cleanly. Where drilling is slower and there is time for cuttings sweeps, conventional stabilizers can be adequate. However, in most wells today, they are not the best choice.
Vibration and Drilling Dysfunctions (Whirl, Stick-Slip)
Energy lost to uncontrolled vibration is energy not effectively used to cut rock. Stick-slip causes erratic bit speed and torque, reducing ROP and increasing the risk of cutter damage. Today’s drilling demands, including higher RPM, longer laterals, and increasingly complex well paths, introduce greater challenges for BHA stability and drilling efficiency. Meeting these demands requires advanced BHA technology.
Stalling on Slides
In today’s demanding wells, high-friction stabilizers hang the string up while sliding, so weight arrives in surges and the motor stalls.
Solutions
Maximize ROP with DTI’s Wellbore Conditioning Tools
Drill-N-Ream®
Ultimate Wellbore Conditioning Tool
Reduce torque and drag, extend your lateral reach, and eliminate the need for dedicated reamer runs.
Dome Hybrid Reamer
Stabilize & Ream on Demand
A dual-function tool that stabilizes the BHA during normal drilling and reams on demand, reaming when you need it.
ClearPath™ Stabilizer
Next-Generation Stabilization
Dome-shaped, low-friction blades centralize the BHA while reducing torque, drag, and torsional vibration, a direct spiral-blade replacement.
ClearPath™ Sleeve
Wellbore Conditioning Sleeve
A non-rotating stabilizer sleeve that delivers 360° wellbore contact, reducing torque, drag, and vibration while supporting higher ROP.