What Could Go Wrong? Tips for Troubleshooting Drilling Projects
On Drilling In-Site, episode 31, hosts Jeremy Verdusco and Brock Yordy get into troubleshooting on drilling jobs. We talk a lot about equipment and safety, but what about the actual drilling work? From high pressures to over-sized cuttings, plenty of things can go wrong on a drilling project. We talk about common issues drillers face from the platform, and how to fix them.
“We get into trouble when we get laser-focused on how many feet we can get in per minute and we stop looking at our gages,” Yordy says. “Because our rotational torque will be going up. Our pressures will be going up.”