SET Technology, an industry breakthrough, meets urgent 21st-century challenges posed by drilling in high-pressure zones, deepwater environments and troublesome subsalt plays.
 
Its innovative characteristics allow operators to successfully drill reservoirs that until now could not be reached economically with other technology. Instead of using progressively smaller pipe as a well is drilled deeper, tubular diameters are expanded with specially designed mandrels or expansion cones. This reduces well tapering while preserving borehole size. Now, drilling can go deeper and farther. And SET Technology can give new life to old wellbores by cladding expanding casing inside existing tubulars.

In customers' bottom-line terms, expandable casing can: