Industry News

Industry News

Industry News

  • Why use casing stabilizers?

    Why use casing stabilizers?

    Casing Centralization Using casing centralizers is an important measure to improve cementing quality. The purpose of cementing is twofold: first, to isolate unstable, lost-circulation, or other complex intervals with casing, thereby providing protection for continued safe and smooth drilling; sec...
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  • Workover Tools | Drilling-Milling-Milling Class | Positive Displacement Motor

    Workover Tools | Drilling-Milling-Milling Class | Positive Displacement Motor

    1. Applications Powered by hydraulic pressure, the PDM drives the downhole drilling assembly in rotation, enabling operations such as drilling, milling, and sidetracking.   2. Structure The PDM primarily consists of a top sub, bypass valve, stator, rotor, coupling, water passage sub, bearing...
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  • Five Common Wellhead Tools

    Five Common Wellhead Tools

    Elevator Links (Bails) Structure and Principle The elevator link is a special wellhead tool used to suspend elevators when running and pulling pipe strings during drilling and workover operations. It requires high load capacity, impact resistance, light weight, safety and reliability. The upper...
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  • Directional Drilling Technology;Drill Pipe;Drill Cuttings

    Directional Drilling Technology;Drill Pipe;Drill Cuttings

      Directional drilling technology is an advanced drilling method that employs specialised downhole tools and measurement control techniques to extend the drilling trajectory along a pre-designed (non-vertical) path to the target formation. The essence of directional drilling lies in activel...
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  • Well Repair Tools | Drilling, Milling & Grinding Tools | Concave Mill Shoe

    Well Repair Tools | Drilling, Milling & Grinding Tools | Concave Mill Shoe

    1. Application The concave mill shoe is a well repair tool used for grinding small downhole fish and other unstable fish inside the casing. 2. Structure It consists of a mill shoe body with a concave angle of 5°~30° on the bottom surface, and YD alloy or other wear-resistant materials deposited (...
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  • Tubular String Fishing Tool — Box Tap

    Tubular String Fishing Tool — Box Tap

    A box tap is a specialized tool designed for thread-milling fishing operations on the outer wall of tubular fish. 01 Structure Long cylindrical integral structure, composed of a sub and a body (which has fishing threads on its inner conical surface). The box tap is made of high-strength alloy st...
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  • Drill Bit Types

    Drill Bit Types

    1. Tricone Drill Bits: Rolling cutter bits (or rotary cone bits) have their cutting elements arranged on cones that rotate around their axes as the bit body spins. The number of cones on a bit can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. However, the most common rotary cone bits are tri-cone bits. Approximately 9...
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  • Wellhead Equipment Installation Procedure and Precautions

    Wellhead Equipment Installation Procedure and Precautions

    Wellhead Valve Operation Precautions   Caution must be exercised when opening or closing the valve. Some types of valves are equipped with a shear pin between the handle and the valve stem; if excessive force is applied, the shear pin will break automatically to protect the valve’s in...
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  • Why tungsten price surging will bring challenges for the drilling industry ?

    Why tungsten price surging will bring challenges for the drilling industry ?

    Tungsten prices have risen by over 200% year-to-date in late 2025, reaching a nearly two-decade high due to a severe supply crunch and surging demand. Tungsten (primarily tungsten carbide) is critical for drill bits,milling tools, wear-resistant parts/tools, and weighting materials in drilling. ...
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  • API New Drill Pipe Types and Structural Parameters

    API New Drill Pipe Types and Structural Parameters

    API Drill Pipe Thread Types: The Ultimate Guide to Drilling Connections In the drilling industry, every component plays a vital role in the success of operations. Among the most critical are API drill pipe thread types—these unsung components ensure the smooth transmission of downhole power and f...
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  • Downhole Tools

    Downhole Tools

    1.Completion packers 5 series of 21 packers have been developed in the past 15 years to meet the demand of field operations, including mechanically-set retrievable packers, hydraulically-set retrievable packers, releasable retrievable packers and big bore hanging packers. The packers are chosen i...
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  • Casing Head: The Lifeblood Connecting the Surface to the Subsurface

    Casing Head: The Lifeblood Connecting the Surface to the Subsurface

    The cornerstone of load-bearing and pressure conversion hub for the entire wellhead equipment—the casing head. Today, we focus on this crucial component to uncover how this “lifeblood connecting the surface to the subsurface” ensures absolute safety from the surface to the formation. ...
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