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Downhole motor and bit

PREPARED BY: SHAPAGAT, NAZIRA, NURBOL, ASSET


Plan
Downhole motor
How to determine downhole motor failure?
Drill bits
Modes of PDC Damage
Downhole motor
Downhole motor (PDM drill) is a volumetric downhole
power drilling tool that uses drilling fluid as power and
converts liquid pressure energy into mechanical
energy. When the mud pumped by the mud pump flows
into the motor through the Dump Assembly, a certain
pressure difference is formed between the inlet and the
outlet of the motor, pushing the rotor to rotate about the
axis of the stator, and transmitting the speed and torque to
the drill through the universal shaft and the transmission
shaft To achieve drilling operations.
How to determine downhole motor
failure?
The following signs indicate that you may be faced with downhole mud motor breakdown.
Frequent Mud Motor Stall 
Pressure fluctuation while rotating 
Abnormally high surface pressure
Reduction in Rate of Penetration 
Drill bit
Polycrystalline Diamond Compact (PDC) drill bits
account for approximately 90+% of the global footage
drilled, and are widely used across all of the North
American land operations (Scott, 2015). PDC bit and
cutter manufactures observe dull grades post run to
determine and evaluate the effectiveness of certain
cutters and design features, but most operators still
treat bit grading and forensics as an afterthought.
More often than not, the decision of which bit to run
next has already been made prior to the previous
being pulled. This is often done with minimal
quantitative or qualitative analysis performed on the
damage incurred in previous bit runs.
Modes of PDC Damage
Six modes of damage most commonly encountered:
Smooth wear
Normal fracture (aka. spalling and delamination, normal to the profile)
Tangential fracture (fracture in the cutting direction)
Thermal damage
Erosion
Corrosion
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