Hydraulics

The hydraulics program is used to calculate the pressure and or flow rate of the drill string. It incorporates Bingham Plastic or Power Law models that have been widely used for years in the oil industry, and are proven to be accurate when applied to the right type of drilling mud.

Generally, the Bingham Plastic model is used for oil based drilling muds and the Power Law model is used for water based drilling muds. The interface for the Hydraulics program is exceptionally easy to use and is directly integrated with the WinSurv2 Reporting package.

The screenshot shown below illustrates the main screen of the Hydraulics program.


Hydraulics Screenshot
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Up to 10 jets can be used and their sizes can be easily adjusted with the slider controls shown in the middle of the page. Each time a slider control is adjusted the entire Hydraulics is completely recalculated; this allows the user to optimize their jets for the desired parameters very quickly.

The report, that can be viewed as a PDF below, is a succinct and well crafted report illustrating all of the important data on a single, easy to read page.

To view the example, click below. The file will open in your browser. Then you may save the PDF file, if you like, to view it later.

See an example pdf file.

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