Highlights
Highlights
Benefits
- Increases bit life in abrasive drilling environments
- Provides exceptional ROP with custom cutting structure
- Improves reliability with air bearing package
Overview
Overview
Our Vanguard™ air performance tricone drill bit combines extra-hard tungsten-carbide alloys with a customized insert layout to maximize penetration rates and downhole rock destruction in air-drilling applications.
Optimize performance
The bit’s uniformly applied tungsten-carbide hardfacing protects the body from damaging rock formations and debris, enhancing wear resistance while extending the life of bearing and seals. Further optimizing performance, the bit features a unique seal and bearing package engineered to improve bit life and reliability.
Maximize field performance across multiple wells
The flagship tricone bits utilize next-generation technology with incredible versatility. Vanguard designs are predicated on a balance between bearing, cutters, and body integrity. Baker Hughes’ drilling application teams continuously design, analyze, test, and improve carbide shapes and grades for the application and select the optimum combination of features to create the most efficient and durable bit for a specific formation. Essentially, the right bit for the right application.
The results are a true collaboration, drawing on unique resources, including a comprehensive database that taps our rich history of continual drilling improvements. The process also includes a state-of-the-art drilling laboratory and a full-scale research rig and downhole simulator. This combination of unique resources in a fully collaborative environment permits us to create tricone drill bits and systems that optimize performance, minimize drilling and completion costs while reducing nonproductive time.