A drill bit includes a bit body with high and low fluid pressure bodies. The low-pressure bit body includes a fixed cutting structure, and the high-pressure bit body includes at least one high-pressure fluid channel and nozzle capable of withstanding fluid pressures greater than 40 kpsi (276 MPa). A bottomhole assembly includes a drill bit with a bit body having fixed cutter and fluid jetting portions. Low and high-pressure channels in the bit body exit in the fixed cutter and fluid jetting portions. A high-pressure nozzle is coupled to the fluid jetting portion and the high-pressure fluid channel, and a plurality of fixed cutting elements are coupled to the fixed cutter portion. A pressure intensifier is coupled to the drill bit and is configured to increase a pressure of a fluid supplied to the high-pressure fluid channel in the bit body.

A cutting element may include a fluid passage passing through the cutting element. The cutting element may further include a cutting edge and an aperture proximate the cutting edge. The aperture may be coupled to the fluid passage.

A system includes a sensor carrier and an integrated data recorder. The sensor carrier includes an outer sub body and an inner sub body. The inner sub body is coupled to the outer sub body by a support leg. The inner sub body includes a recess formed therein. The sensor carrier includes a flow path defined as the space between the outer sub body, the inner sub body, and the support leg. The integrated data recorder is positioned within the recess of the inner sub body such that the integrated data recorder is substantially at the centerline of the sensor carrier. The integrated data recorder includes a sensor package including one or more drilling dynamics sensors, a processor, a memory module, and an electrical energy source.

Tools, for example, fixed cutter drill bits, may be manufactured to include hard composite portions having reinforcing particles dispersed in a continuous binder phase and auxiliary portions that are more machinable than the hard composite portions. For example, a tool may include a hard composite portion having a machinability rating 0.2 or less; and an auxiliary portion having a machinability rating of 0.6 or greater in contact with the hard composite portion. The boundary or interface between the hard composite portion and the auxiliary portion may be designed so that upon removal of the most or all of the auxiliary portion the resultant tool has a desired geometry without having to machine the hard composite portion.

A system includes a sensor carrier and an integrated data recorder. The sensor carrier includes an outer sub body and an inner sub body. The inner sub body is coupled to the outer sub body by a support leg. The inner sub body includes a recess formed therein. The sensor carrier includes a flow path defined as the space between the outer sub body, the inner sub body, and the support leg. The integrated data recorder is positioned within the recess of the inner sub body such that the integrated data recorder is substantially at the centerline of the sensor carrier. The integrated data recorder includes a sensor package including one or more drilling dynamics sensors, a processor, a memory module, and an electrical energy source.

The invention relates to a drill head and to a method for producing a substantially vertical borehole in the ground, in particular for producing a shaft, having a body (11) which is able to be connected to a rotary drive of a drilling device, having drilling tools (12) which for loosening the ground at a face (100) of the borehole are disposed on the body (11), having a discharge device which for discharging the loosened ground on the face (100) is able to be connected to a suction unit for suctioning a conveying medium (90) by way of a conveying line (31), wherein the discharge device has an opening region (22) which is disposed on the body (11) and has at least one opening (23) in the region of the drilling tools (12) at the face. It is provided here that the at least one opening (23) of the opening region (22) is connected to a suction box (20) which as a component part of the discharge device has, at an end opposite the opening (23), a connector opening (29) for connecting to the conveying line (31), that at least one element which exerts an acceleration on the loosened ground in the region of the suction box (20) is provided, by way of which acceleration the ground loosened by the drilling tools (12) is able to be moved into the opening region (22) and/or through the opening (23) into the suction box (25), wherein the loosened ground (110) is acquired by the conveying medium (90) in the opening (23) and/or in the suction box (25) and is able to be discharged by way of the conveying line (31) by the suction unit.

A drill bit for cutting a hole in a formation. The drill bit has a shank and a crown. The crown has a plurality of crown portions that are spaced about an operative circumference of the drill bit. The shank and crown cooperate to define an interior space that receives water or other drilling fluid. Each crown portion has two longitudinal edges, an outer surface, at least one inner surface and a cutting face. The crown has a base surface that is spaced from the cutting faces of the crown portions and cooperates with the inner surface of each of the two crown portions to define a slot.

A drill bit includes a shank having a threaded coupling formed at an upper end thereof; a bit body mounted to a lower end of the shank and having a plenum; a gage section forming an outer portion of the drill bit; a cutting face forming a lower end of the drill bit and including: a core receptacle formed at a center of the cutting face, operable to receive a core of earth, and including: a concave core cutter mounted to a bottom of the bit body; and a core port extending from the plenum through the bottom of the bit body and operable to discharge drilling fluid onto the core and core cutter; a plurality of blades protruding from a bottom of the bit body and extending from a periphery of the core receptacle to the gage section; and a plurality of leading cutters mounted along each blade.

A drill bit includes a bit body with high and low fluid pressure bodies. The low-pressure bit body includes a fixed cutting structure, and the high-pressure bit body includes a first high-pressure fluid channel and nozzle capable of withstanding fluid pressures greater than 40 kpsi (276 MPa). A bottomhole assembly includes a drill bit with a bit body having fixed cutter and fluid jetting portions. Low and high-pressure channels in the bit body exit in the fixed cutter and fluid jetting portions. The first high-pressure nozzle is coupled to the fluid jetting portion and the high-pressure fluid channel, and a plurality of fixed cutting elements are coupled to the fixed cutter portion. A pressure intensifier is coupled to the drill bit and is configured to increase a pressure of a fluid supplied to the high-pressure fluid channel in the bit body.

A drill bit performs pilot rock-breaking using an outer annular drill bit and breaks a central rock pillar using a central drill bit mounted in the middle of the annular drill bit and located inside a drill bit body to induce unloading of a bottom hole stress. A method mixes rock debris produced by rock breaking of the central drill bit as abrasive with the drilling fluid flowing into the entire drill bit as abrasive jet liquid phase to form an abrasive jet. The method includes obtaining an annular borehole by braking, and breaking the rock pillar at the inner side of the annular borehole to induce unloading of the bottom hole stress, mixing the rock debris produced by breaking the rock pillar at the inner side of the annular borehole as abrasive with the drilling fluid entering the drill bit to form an abrasive jet.