Creating a spiral drilling stabilizer with Salomé - Presenting

I'm going to need from you a very brief knowledge of Salomé. I would suggest you to download the explanatory videos from this website http://www.caelinux.org/wiki/index.php/Doc:Salome it is a little outdated but it's going to help you a lot if you don't know a thing about Salomé.

• What will we be drawing?
• Why are we going to draw a spiral stabilizer?
• What is this for?

What will we be drawing? 

We will draw a drilling stabilizer. In the drilling industry we have several types of drilling stabilizers:

• Straight Integral Blade Stabilizers;
• Straight Welded;
• Spiral Integral;
• Spiral Welded;
• Sleeve Blade;
• Variable OD - its size can vary accordingly;
• Etc ...

Several types of drilling stabilizer. Extracted from the web @ http://dns.tix.co.jp/eng/products_tsk/drilling.html

Why are we going to draw a spiral stabilizer? 


Because it is a simple tool but it has a complex spiral design and if we learn a way of doing it, we basically can draw whatever we may want. Of course, from my point of view!!

What is this for?




These devices are used ... well ... to stabilize the BHA in the hole and to improve or reduce the "building" capability of the BHA.

BHA stands for Bottom Hole Assembly. It is a combination of tools to drill a well. The basic design is drilling bit, drill collars and heavy weight drill pipes.

Example of a simple BHA. Bit+Drill Collar+Stb+DC's and HWDP