DRILLING/FORMATION EVALUATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
INTEQ leads the industry in the development of advanced directional and performance
drilling technology and applications. This leadership is driven by INTEQ’s focus
on driving research and development through in-house Technology Centers to leverage
INTEQ’s deep knowledge of the requirements and challenges of directional and performance
drilling. Third-party drilling technology was not advancing rapidly enough to meet
the challenges INTEQ and its customers were facing: we had to do it ourselves.
In 1997, INTEQ, in collaboration with Eni (formerly Agip), developed the AutoTrak®
RCLS, the first fully automated closed loop rotor drilling system with integrated logging while drilling
sensors. With its high degree of automation and two-way
communications capabilities, the control and precision of AutoTrak RCLS revolutionized
directional drilling—changing the way operators planned and developed their fields.
The AutoTrak system, with its integrated MWD (measurement while drilling) and LWD
(logging while drilling), became INTEQ’s platform for rapid advances in BHA (bottom-hole
assembly) design.
AutoTrak RCLS spurred INTEQ’s development of next-generation LWD and MWD instrumentation
and advanced mud pulse telemetry, for the first time bringing while drilling measurements
and data to parity with the data quality available through drill-then-log methods.
The need to provide real-time evaluation of real-time FE data impelled INTEQ to
greatly enlarge its geoscience presence, building a strong organization of petroleum
geologists and engineers experienced and thoroughly trained in the evaluation of
while drilling data.
AutoTrak was also the impetus to a new generation of powerful
downhole, rotary steerable systems, including the AutoTrak X-treme® service, integrating
the industry’s fastest, most powerful downhole motor to set the standard in drilling
speed and precision. Other INTEQ technologies incorporating the X-treme power section
include the VertiTrak® vertical drilling system, an automated system that drills
gun-barrel straight vertical wellbores faster than ever before, and the TruTrakSM
automated directional drilling service.
The combination of advanced drilling technology, advanced LWD and MWD capabilities and instrumentation, and the integration of INTEQ’s drilling and FE expertise has
come together as INTEQ’s Answers While DrillingSM.