Amazing Control Thousands of Feet Under

For Drilling class my Junior year, I put together a presentation on Weatherford's new introduction of the RipTide Reamer.  The RipTide Reamer is designed to accomplish efficient reaming of wellbores to save money and increase borehole diameter.  It is placed above the logging tools in the BHA and can perform underreaming below casing to produce a larger diameter for proceeding casing and usable drilling bit sizes.  The Rip Tide is capable of providing the driller with a 25% larger borehole than the bit is designed to achieve.  It is compatible with Rotary-Steerable Systems and has many other attributes which enhance the borehole diameter efficiently.  This tool also serves assistance in controlling annular fluid velocities and optimizing cementing jobs.  This video is slightly long, but if you have an itch to see how they activate this tool downhole using hydraulics, take a look at the video.