Drill hard rock and long laterals faster with NexTitan

NexTitan is a downhole drive system that applies weight on bit at the bit and reacts to downhole conditions in real time.

No. It controls weight on bit at the bit.

It reduces it. Sensors at the bit face respond to vibration as it starts and adjust weight on bit before cutters fracture. Houston field tests measured 35% lower lateral vibration.

Yes, in the part of the lateral where surface weight no longer reaches the bit. NexTitan applies weight at the bit regardless of lateral length.

We’re developing it now. Thrust generated downhole removes the buckling and lock-up limits on coil reach. If coiled tubing drilling is your use case, tell us and we’ll bring you in early.

Hard rock: granite, basalt, phyllite and similar. It adds little in soft sediments. Rated to 175°C circulating.

Stick-slip is a torsional vibration in which the bit stops rotating, torque builds in the drill string, and the bit spins free at several times surface speed. It fractures PDC cutters and reduces rate of penetration.

Extended reach drilling (ERD) means wells whose horizontal reach is large relative to vertical depth, typically above 2:1. The limit is usually weight on bit: friction along the lateral absorbs the weight applied at surface before it reaches the bit.

The drill pipe lies against the low side of the borehole and friction absorbs the surface weight. Past a certain length almost none reaches the bit, and the pipe can buckle before it does. Applying weight at the bit removes that limit.