Drilling for oil is a process that takes place all over the world, around the clock. When all the necessary components come together, the world's oilfields can pump out tens of millions of barrels of oil every day as it did in 2012 during the oil boom. Because there is always going to be some type of work going on at an oil well site, you need a constant supply of workforce and supplies for your new oilfield company. Here are three important items that will work together to ensure your oilfield production can continue every day.

Drilling Fluids

Before oil can be pumped from beneath the ground in its natural reservoir, an oil drilling rig must dig a well down to extract the oil out with a pump. Your drilling rig will set up their drilling pipe, one 30-foot section at a time, and begin to drill into the earth. The drill bit attached onto the bottom of the drilling pipe digs through the dirt and rock with the help of drilling fluids. These drilling fluids can be a mixture of many things, including water, clay, air, oils, and polymer.

Drilling fluids are necessary to keep the drill bit cool as the friction from grinding through the ground can create heat. Too much heat will damage the drill bit and cause your entire oil drilling operation to stop.

The drilling fluid also creates hydrostatic pressure to keep out any surface fluids from getting down into the well and possibly contaminating your oil reservoir. The drilling fluid pumped down into the drilling pipe also pushes out ground cuttings as the drill bit bores downward. 

When your drilling crew needs to stop their work for any amount of time, the drilling fluid suspends the cut dirt and rock in place until work starts again. The fluid also suspends the dirt and rock while your crew removes their drill pipes from the hole when work is completed.

Drill Bits

Most oilfield drill bits are made up of two to three rotating cones covered with sharp teeth. As the drill bit rotates around, the teeth cut at rock and dirt. Because the teeth need to be some of the hardest materials to cut through hard rock, they are made from tungsten carbide, steel, and even diamonds. 

Without the right type of heavy-duty drill bit, progress could not be made with your drilling fluids and drill pipe. Depending on the type of rock and soil conditions at the oil well dig site, your drill engineer might select for use several types of drill bits in varying levels of durability. Many times drill rigs will use the most durable bit to drill through rock even though they may later drill through softer shale and clay. By using one heavy-duty drill bit the entire time, the crew will save time by not switching out different drill bits. 

A drill rig does not want to stop work when a drill bit breaks or fails, so they usually have several replacement parts available. When one of the parts is used, they will request a new part be delivered to the site by a hot shot driver as soon as possible as i is hard to determine how long a drill bit will ultimately last.

Hot Shot Drivers

When your oil drilling rig needs a replacement new drill bit, they call the services of an on-call hot shot driver to pick up the part and deliver it to them on a flatbed truck. A hot shot driver is imperative to keep an oil rig working. Time is money and you are not making money when an oilfield site stops their production work because of a broken drill bit.

Hot shot drivers with equipment from places like Hitch 'Em Oilfield Hauling can deliver other items such as oil holding tanks, backhoes, or extra drill pipe. Many of the oilfield parts are heavy or large, so the size of a flatbed allows different types of equipment to get to the oil site as soon as possible. And, they work around the clock to provide materials to the oil field.

These three important parts in the oilfield industry work together make the oil business possible.

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