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Explore the key challenges in modern offshore drilling and see how Enhanced Drilling’s solutions help operators improve performance, reduce risk, and enhance well integrity.

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Top-Hole Challenges
Creating a stable foundation.
Shallow Flow Hazards
Cuttings Build-Up
Cementing Top-Holes
WellBore Instability
Extending / Removing Sections
Environmental & Regulatory 
Meeting targets while reducing footprint.
Environmentally Sensitive Areas
Reduce Carbon Footprint
Reduce Logistic Demand
Reduce Rig Time
Pressure Management
Staying within the window
Narrow Operating Windows
Depletion
Lost Circulation
Influx Management
Cementing
Well Completion
Finishing strong – safely and productively..
Managed Pressure Gravel Packing
Higher Production
Deepwater & Ultra-Deepwater
More depth. More risk. More need for control.
Complex Well Architecture
Influx Management
Narrow Operating Windows

Precision Tools That Enable Safer, Smarter Wells

Our technologies are categorized by drilling phase – helping you find the right solution faster.

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Well Diagram - Top Hole Section

Top-Hole Section

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Technologies
Help you drill faster, cleaner, and safer from day one — while protecting the environment and reducing risk in the most fragile part of the well.
RMR® – Riserless Mud Recovery
CTS – Cuttings Transportation System
MPC® – Managed Pressure Cementing
Well Diagram - Intermediate Section

Intermediate section

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Technologies
Helps you drill deeper with fewer casing strings, improved stability, and better safety — even in narrow pressure windows.
EC-Drill® Dual MPD
EC-Drill®
EC-Monitor™
Well Diagram - Reservoir & Completion Section

Reservoir and Completion

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Technologies
Helps maximize production rates, protect the reservoir, and simplify completion — even in depleted zones or challenging formations.
EC-Drill® Dual MPD
EC-Drill®
EC-Monitor™

Solving Instability Challenges
in Top-Hole Drilling

Shifts in formation pressure and mechanical stresses can threaten wellbore integrity, escalate risks and increase operational time. You need a solution which proactively manages this challenge. 

Why Wellbore Instability is a Critical Challenge

Wellbore instability presents significant risks during top-hole drilling, where unconsolidated formations and different mechanical stresses can compromise the well’s structural integrity. This instability can lead to collapse, washout, stuck pipe incidents, gumbo and swelling formations. 

Proactively managing these challenges is essential for maintaining well integrity and ensuring safe and successful drilling outcomes.

We help you regain stability.

Wellbore Instability | Enhanced Drilling

Taking Returns to the Rig While Drilling Top-Holes

Enable a circulation system with returns to the rig and use an engineered fluid without concern for environmental limitations or logistical challenges.

Chemical Instability

An engineered fluid addresses chemical instability challenges by using inhibitors and fluid loss control agents. These chemicals will prevent washouts and swelling. A filter cake will assist in supporting the wall in unconsolidated sands.

Mechanical Instability

Add weighting material to the drilling fluid and increase the hydrostatic pressure in the well to prevent wellbore collapse and subsequent stuck pipe.

 

Technology

To overcome wellbore instability challenges in top-hole drilling,
we apply advanced solutions that maintain well integrity,
minimize operational risks, and adapt to environmental and
logistical demands.

RMR®

Creating a circulating system for riserless drilling

With RMR a proper drilling fluid can be used to prevent both chemical and mechanical wellbore instability challenges while removing challenges associated with logistics or environmental limitations.

Key Benefits:

  • Improve wellbore stability
  • Zero discharge
  • Primary barrier in place
  • Engineered fluid

 

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Let’s Tackle Your Wellbore Challenges Together

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