Productivity Applications 5/15 - Oil and Gas Platforms

Sensata is among the few companies in the industry that has tested its motors to 30K PSI under maximum temperature extremes exceeding 200°C.

The oil and gas exploration and drilling process has become more complex as it reaches deeper than ever before. An increase in the number of directional or “geosteering” operations has driven the need for improved Measurement-While-Drilling (or MWD) logging equipment, which is used to provide real-time positional data to assist with the proper orientation and steering of the drill. Knowing the location of the drill tip is vital to proper operation of the rig. In addition, it helps in planning when to change out drill bits, when to take certain measurements, how much windup to expect, how to weight the drill string and so on.

It is not uncommon to have rotary encoders stacked up on the rotational axis of the DrawWork, both for redundancy and for sharing signals with other operations on the rig. The ideal encoder would be explosion proof (required by the proximity to explosive gases), stackable (for redundancy and communication) and be able to communicate over long distances reliably. The MAAX encoder from Sensata is all of these things: engineered with this specific application in mind it is a complete solution to the issues of operating a DrawWorks on a drilling rig.