Cutting & Wear Resistant Developments Limited

The REALM project will develop a new, sustainable manufacturing technology to produce hard-facings for downhole drilling tools. The proprietary technology uses a novel metal additive manufacturing process based on Directed Energy Deposition (DED) to form highly wear resistant hard-facing coatings in-situ, using elemental powders. The super-hard coating is...

To develop finishing operations for Thermally Stable Polycrystalline Diamond hard-faced components to be used in drilling operations.

Development of Mud Motor Radial bearing manufacturing for the oil and gas industry using an innovative manufacturing technique for improved wear resistance, low coefficient of friction and high productivity.

This project concerns the extraction of oil and gas; a successful outcome would also be of benefit to the UK’s burgeoning shale gas industry. Individual drill pipe tool joints and other vulnerable areas of drill string components have been protected for a long time from abrasive wear using hardbanding welding technique that involved a selective applicatio...

The company is looking to research and develop a novel intelligent down the hole disconnect tool (I-DISC) which would provide disconnection from the bottom hole assembly and extraction in a fraction of the time of the existing state of art methods. During oil and gas exploration the bottom hole assembly (BHA) can become stuck/jammed due to poor cleaning o...

To develop hard-banding technology for use by companies who service the oil and gas drilling markets.