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The Sonic Drilling Institute aims to create awareness and education via media to provide drillers with a full insight into the sonic drilling process.
What you should consider
Advantages of Sonic Drilling
The performances of Sonic Drilling exceed by far those of conventional.
- Commercially profitable and technically surpassing conventional rotary rigs
- Over 50 years in the industry
- Progress rates 4x faster than conventional rigs on some soils
- Less fluid is used than conventional rotary rigs
- Higher recover rates (consistently >90%) in case cores are recovered
We think Sonic Drilling should be the norm.
But there are reasons why it is not ...
Before the Sonic Drilling Institute put its problem solving team together, feedback from drillers was along the lines of...
- Higher CAPEX
- High Break-down Rates (10% of CAPEX p.a.)
- No Established Protocol for operating sonic rigs
- Scarcity of skilled Sonic Drillers, or
- Time and cost of training new ones
But we have solved all of this...
What you should consider
Disadvantages of Standalone Sonic Drilling
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In the drilling industry there are many techniques and equipment that have been used over
The Sonic Drilling Institute Team
The Sonic Drilling Institute
Who Are They
We help sonic drillers with their challenges on the field:
- Inadequate rig operation and costly break-downs
- Lengthy training periods and scarcity of skilled sonic drillers
- Excessive use of fluids
- Inefficient drilling
That’s all we do, and we do it well.
Sci-Ex system for Computer-Assisted Sonic Drilling will get you a long way.
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