Drilling Runner-Up - Baker Hughes Incorporated - Best of Both Worlds
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- Written by Maurice Smith
Hybrid drill bit combines speed of PDC bits with toughness of tricones
As far back as the early 1900s, when the rudimentary fishtail drill bit was superseded by the roller cone bit—a marvel of engineering that was to revolutionize the oil industry—the limitations of the technology were well-known.
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