Intelligent Drilling Tools was formed in 2008 with a mission to develop electronically activated, programmable downhole drilling tools that did not require drop ball, dart or other means to activate them. This has led to the development of the DEAP package utilised in the AVS multi-function flow divertor tool. These are finding application in all types of wells from vertical to horizontal and multi-lateral.. Recently, Innovar AS, a Norwegian based service company has taken a majority share in IDT and a new company, IDT-Innovar AS has been formed. A new website is to follow in September 2024.
Meet The Team
Gordon Hunter – Managing Director, IDT
Mark Booth – Senior Development Engineer, IDT
History
The focus of the company was to develop technologies that could seriously mitigate the biggest NPT and costliest events in the drilling world…stuck pipe, tight hole and associated poor drilling performance. This focus lead to the development of the iDisc, a fully automated BHA disconnect which would negate the need for wireline, explosives and 3rd parties to be able to disconnect in the event of a stuck BHA.
In a large percentage of stuck pipe, the root cause is often poor hole cleaning. The technologies developed for the iDISC were then applied to a new and radical drilling multi-cycle circulating valve, initially called iCIRC later re-branded as the AVS.
At the core of our technologies are clever and robust electronics, software and superb mechanical engineering.
