Hardware Simulator
DSC’s Hardware Simulator is a physical laboratory machine that provides a full-scale, real-time horizontal drilling capability. The test sample can accomodate the lower part of a drilling BHA, about 23 meters long and 6 ¾” in diameter with an 8 ¾” drill bit. Building on two oil field triplex pumps, a powerful hydraulic feed device and a rock chamber, realistic well conditions can be achieved.
The hardware simulator currently has the following specifications:
Drilling Rig | ||
| Stroke | 5m | 16.3 ft |
| ROP | 10 m/h | 32 ft/h |
| WOB | 10 t | |
| Torque | 8.8 kNm | 6.5 klbsft |
| RPM | 220 1/min | |
| Power | 200 kW | 270 hp |
Mud System: | ||
| 2 x Schäfer & Urbach BT 60/70 | ||
| Power | 1200 kW | 1600 hp |
| Flow | 5000l/min | 1300gal/min |
| Pressure | 350 bar | 5000 psi |
Autoclave | ||
| Length BHA | 23 m | 75 ft |
| Formation | 5 m | 16.3 ft |
| Pressure | 100 bar | 1500 psi |
| Diameter | 222 mm | 8 3/4" |
DSC’s Hardware Simulator is a physical laboratory machine that provides a full-scale, real-time horizontal drilling capability.