Highlights
Highlights
Benefits
- Patented seal packages improve reliability for longer drilling hours downhole
- Aggressive cutting structures provide exceptional rate of penetration (ROP)
- Protective bit body armor increases bit life in carbonate drilling environments
Overview
Overview
Our Vanguard™ Arabia tricone drill bits drill longer distances in the Middle East’s less-abrasive, hard-carbonate formations. These tungsten carbide insert (TCI) drill bits have super-tough carbide grades that minimize breakage from impact damage.
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.
You can rely on the improved cutting structure and seal life for greater footage.