Mastermilling Final 98-10
Mastermilling Final 98-10
Mastermilling Final 98-10
Techmaster milling tools carries a large inventory of the standard and special
milling tools which covers a wide range of milling requirements.
Main Categories:
• Taper Mill
• Econo Mill
• Pilot Mill
• String Watermelon Mill
• Deep Throat Mill
• Piranha Mill
• Diamond Point mill
• Junk Mill
Taper Mill
Designed for milling through various types of downhole obstructions, and for
reaming out liners and whipstock windows. It is designed specifically for
milling through tight spots in tubular. Custom design taper mills are utilized
to clean the casing without cutting it, and to penetrate very gradually. The
upper part of the taper mill is long enough to allow the addition of stabilizing
blades while still remaining easy to fish.
The three most used configurations are the 60 degree mill (30 degrees per
side), The 30 degree mill (15 degrees per side) and the 15 degree mill (7
1/2 degrees per side.)
Econo Mill
Is a low-cost mill for light-duty milling jobs, dressed with tungsten carbide. It
is an effective tool for milling packers, bridge plugs, cement retainers and
tubular equipments.
Made with a standard rock-bit connection, it can be easily adapted to drill
stem stabilizers or used inside a skirt to mill fish heads.
No additional subs are required, circulation is directed junk slots along each
cutting blade and through the center of the head for proper cutting removal
and cooling.
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Econo
Mill
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Pilot Mill
Is best used for milling stuck tubular, such as Packers, liner hangers, rotary
shoes or drill pipe and is ideal for cleaning a casing head before running
casing patch, and suppressing the damaged parts of a casing.
Piranha Mill
Built to mill large amounts of junk like cemented drill pipe and packers.
Diamond Point
Made to bevel off liner tops for smoother entries, it may also be used for
washing through packed sand fill with either a spud or rotating action.
Pilot Mills
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Junk Mill
Junk Mills are the most commonly used milling tools designed to mill up or
dress off a wide variety of junks such as squeeze tools, packers, tubing,
bridge plugs, it also works well where there is a combination of junk and
cement. The Junk Mill, dressed with Tungsten Carbide, chews its way
through the toughest drilling materials. Junk Mills are applied for milling
away of metal parts in a hole (subs, bits, pipes, etc.).
Techmaster junk mills are produced from high strength heat treated alloy.
All Mills are available as bit type or with optional fishing neck and hard
surface wear pads. Large circulation ports and ample fluid channels provide
cooling and efficient removal of cuttings. This will makes milling jobs easy
even when cutting the toughest fish such as alloy-steel packers, squeeze
tools, perforating guns, drill pipe, tool joints, reamers, reamer blades, and
rock bits.
Each type of junk mill is appropriate for a particular application, depending
upon several factors:
• Hole shape.
• Shape of metal parts subject to destruction.
Junk Mill
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Application
Use Junk Mills to mill almost anything in the hole, including:
• Bailers
• Cement Packers
• Subs
• Bit Cones
• Drill Collars
• Reamers (short length)
• Testers
• Drill Pipes
• Setting Tools
• Washpipes
• Hangers
• Slips
• String shots
• Whipstocks
• Casing (collapsed)
Types
Available in standard designs covering a wide range of milling applications:
Junk Mills
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Conventional Junk Mill
Designed for cement, general junk, tubing, milling or packer removal.
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Flat Bottom Junk Mills
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Junk Mill Technical Specification
Components
1) Body
2) Hard-alloy Inserts
3) Tungsten Carbide Hard Face
4) Circulating Ports
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Junk Milling Procedures
1) Tag the bottom of well, spud the junk, kick in the pumps, as in normal
drilling conditions.
2) Start rotation at 60-80 RPM.
3) Reduce weight on Mill.
4) If there is an indication junk may be turning, spud two or three times.
5) After milling one or two feet, pick up the Kelly fifteen to twenty feet off
the bottom and reduce pump pressure or shut off pumps (depending
on hole conditions). This action will let the loose junk settle to the
bottom.
6) Once again feel for the bottom and spud. Begin rotation at 80-100
RPM using normal pump pressure, and weight at 4,000-6,000 lbs.
7) Repeat steps 3 and 4 every few feet, procedures from here onwards
will be governed by feel.
NOTE: In hard formation it will take fewer feet of hole to mill up the junk than in
softer formation. This difference is due to junk more readily penetrating the softer
formation.
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Recommendations for Milling Junk
Loose Junk in Open Hole
• Use a junk mill with an O.D. of 1/8" less than hole diameter.
• Use at least 10,000 lbs. of drill collars.
• Run a junk sub directly above the mill.
(Please note: junk subs for 4-3/4" and smaller drill collars are not
strong enough for repeated spud.)
JUNK MILLING
Frequent spud improves milling efficiency on loose junk. To spud the junk
and force it down, proceed as follows:
1) Settle the neutral on zero point, mark the Kelly at the top of the Kelly
bushing.
2) Pick up the Kelly four to six feet (four feet in deeper holes, six feet in
shallower holes.)
3) Drop the Kelly and catch it (not slow down, but catch it) with the
brake about eighteen to twenty inches above the zero mark.
(Example: Pick up 10' and drop it 8-1/2). This action causes the drill
string to stretch & spud the junk on bottom with great force while the
string is still in a state of tension. This prevents damaging the string
which might be expected if the string is in compression at the
moment of impact.
4) Spud the junk three or four times, turning the mill a quarter each time
between drops.
NOTE: In hard formation it will take fewer feet of hole to mill up the junk than in
softer formation. This difference is due to junk more readily penetrating the softer
formation.
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Stationary Junk in Open Hole
• Use a Junk mill with an O.D. of 1/8" less than the hole diameter.
• Mill with 4,000 to 10,000 lbs. of weight, depending upon the strength
of the fish being milled.
• After each three to five feet of junk milled, pick up the mill ten to
fifteen feet and ream hole down to the fish.
• After reaming the hole down, always set down on the fish while
turning and increase milling weight without delay.
• Never apply weight first and then start rotating.
• Never set down on the fish with a light weight and spin, if you want to
stop milling for any reason, always pick up the mill.
• Run a stabilizer directly above the mill which has the same O.D. as
the mill.
• The mill head O.D. should be the same as the drift diameter of the
casing.
• Wear pads with the same O.D. of the mill head are provided on the
junk mill. These recommended items will eliminate possible damage
to the casing.
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Rotary Speed
A high Surface Feet Per Minute (SFPM) speed can burn or damage
tungsten carbide mills.
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