Shaped-cutter technology from Baker Hughes can help improve the speed and length of your drilling runs. Each of our shaped cutters has been painstakingly designed, engineered, tested, manufactured, and optimally placed to deliver specific performance improvements in specific formation types.
Benefit from a portfolio of cutting-edge shape designs
Each Baker Hughes shaped-cutter is custom-engineered to deliver a range of performance improvements under different drilling conditions. These include:
- StabilisX™ shaped cutterswhich are engineered to avoid heavy-impact damage in—and extend runs through—tough, interbedded formations.
- ShockWave™ shaped cuttersare often deployed in interbedded formations as they provide a durable edge and can also help lower friction to prevent thermal damage or chipping.
- StayCool™ 2.0 shaped cutterscan also prevent thermal damage or chipping and are ideal for drilling with high efficiency in hard, abrasive rock.
- Prism™shaped cuttersprovide point loading for more efficient drilling and are engineered to reduce friction, for greater cooling at the cutter tip. They’ve proven extremely effective at helping drive penetration rates across a wide range of formation types, even at lower weight-on-bit.
- Apex™shaped cuttersare perfect for drilling tough, ductile formations — especially at higher mud weights or with restricted WOB.
Count on a company that won’t cut corners on design and testing
Our drill bit experts use advanced 3D modeling tools to refine each shape based on how we are attempting to improve performance in a specific application or formation. Once we’re happy with the initial design, we manufacture prototypes and test them against a variety of formation types under specific drilling conditions in a device that can mimic downhole weights and pressures. This lets us further refine each shape until we are confident that it will deliver the performance improvements you need.
Then, once a new design goes into our portfolio, we test and model its exact placement on the bit to deliver the best possible results. We can even mix and match multiple shapes in multiple locations to best match an application for the customer’s desired outcome.
Contact a Baker Hughes representative today to start a conversation about how our shaped-cutters can help you drive well construction efficiency with longer, faster drilling runs.
Baker Hughes doesn’t cut any corners when it comes to shaped-cutter design, testing, and modeling. Check out how we are #TakingEnergyForward every day with our shaped-cutter technology and advanced design processes.
Watch this short talk from the 2022 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition to learn how the Baker Hughes portfolio of application-specific shaped-cutter technology is helping increase the speed and extend the distance of our customer’s drilling runs.
