Cuttings Discharge Pump (cdp)

The CDP is a safe and efficient vacuum system designed to collect drill solids on a continuous basis and discharge them into drilling waste containers on the rig.  The system is fully contained reducing exposure to drilling wastes management.

Air moves through the system at high velocity from the cuttings pick up point, via the cuttings discharge pump to the air flow source, the primary air mover.  The drill cuttings are picked up in the air stream, conveyed and subsequently deposited into one of multiple drilling waste containers. In the standard configuration, as many as eighteen drilling waste containers can be deployed at one time, providing a containment volume in excess of 110m3.  The CDP provides and air lock between the dropout hopper and the discharge chute enabling the continuous vacuum collection of drilling waste into drilling waste containers.

Features and Benefits Of CDP

1/ Rotary type cuttings discharge pump – provides an air lock between the drop-out and recover tank and discharge chutes, enabling the continuous collection and discharge of drill cuttings

2/ Discharge chute – remotely operated with up / down and 270° rotational actuator

3/ Drop-our recover y tank – provides 2m3 containment volume

4/ Remotely operated telescopic arm – enables the positioning of the discharge chute to cover up to eighteen drilling waste containers

5/ Solids Control platform – the remotely operated cuttings transfer system is operated from a single elevated location providing a panoramic view over the containment operations

6/ Continuous vacuum collection and discharge of drill cuttings

7/ High containment capacity due to the telescopic arm supplying cuttings to a maximum of eighteen drilling waste containers

8/ Low resource requirement due to the arm being operated by one person only

9/ Exposure to drill cuttings reduced due to remote operation

10/ Reduction in manual handling of suction hoses and / or dump chute due to the remote operation of the telescopic arm and discharge chute

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