Bits
The tool that fails the rock
A PDC bit shears the formation with diamond cutters on a carbide substrate. A roller-cone bit crushes and gouges it with three cones, either milled steel teeth or tungsten-carbide inserts. The formation and the run decide which one is bought. Both photographs we publish are PDC bits. A roller-cone enquiry is still welcome. It will not be illustrated with a PDC picture presented as the other tool.
- Hole size and connection first.
- Formation as you know it, even if the description is short.
- Hole openers are a different tool, for enlarging a hole already drilled.


