V-Pilot® Vertical Drilling System

Setting Direction with the Pilot™ Fleet

Part of the Sperry Drilling services' Pilot™ Fleet of automated drilling systems, the V-Pilot® Vertical Drilling System is a robust performance drilling solution for vertical holes. It is a self-correcting drilling system with an integrated high output mud motor designed to automatically maintain a vertical well path at less than 0.5° inclination.

Benefits can improve drilling efficiency in areas with strong natural deviation tendencies such as highly inclined beds and massive salt formations significantly helps reduce drilling time by eliminating the slow penetration rates associated with trying to maintain verticality with a conventional motor is a purely hydro-mechanical solution with no electronics, making it more reliable and well-suited to hard rock drilling and the high vibration levels that typically accompany tough formations reduces time for bit trips and remedial hole conditioning (backreaming, short trips) and helps improve success with running casing due to consistently high borehole quality.

When combined with a GeoForce® enhanced performance range power section, the system delivers maximum power to the bit, allowing the V-Pilot system to break through the toughest formations and increase rate of penetration (ROP).