Trident PDC Cutters

Comprises four application-specific PDC cutters

Employs proprietary diamond blends, synthesis
Produces low cobalt concentration without leaching
Matches cutter to primary failure modes
Delivers high impact/abrasion resistance
Provides excellent thermal stability
Drills more footage per run
Lowers cost per foot

Trident PDC Cutters

Premium next generation cutters

To learn more about how the Trident Series

PDC cutters can increase your footage and
ROP to reduce your cost/ft, contact your
nearest BesteBit representative.
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Trident PDC Cutters

Beste Bit runs longer and faster

Tackle lithology-driven failure modes to increase your footage and reduce cost-per-foot
Relative wear scores
In inter-bedded formations with hard stringers, you need PDC bit cutters
that deliver the utmost in impact resistance. However, use that same
cutting structure to drill long homogeneous sections of sharp and
enormously abrasive sands at high RPM and the generated heat will
destroy the diamond wafer and prematurely end the run.

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0.06

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Trident 1 - For hard inter-bedded

formations where the primary
failure mode is impact damage.

Trident cutter comparisons

900

T1 Impact

Impact Score

800

600
500
400

Trident 2 - A PDC cutter

is designed specifically for
applications requiring more of
a balance between impact and
abrasion resistance.
Trident 3 - This abrasionresistant cutter is the industrys
most durable solution for drilling
sharp sands and similarly
abrasive horizons.

700

T2 Balanced
T3 Abrasion

300

T4 Super Abrasion

200
200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000

Abrasion Score

50

2000

Trident 4 - A new generation

cutter where we take abrasion
resistance and thermal stability
to a new dimension without
compromising impact resistance.

1950

Beste

46

Standard
leached

Average
Top 5

42

T4
non-leached

T4
leached

Acid-driven leaching has been long been the standard

methodology for reducing the cobalt concentration that
serves as the catalyst for the high-pressure sintering of
a PDC bit. Lowering cobalt, which has a high coefficient
of thermal expansion, is particularly critical in abrasive
and high-speed drilling applications where the generated
heat otherwise dislodges the diamond grains that
were bonded together during synthesis. However, with
todays PDC bit designs, leaching has become more
difficult and troublesome, typically forcing a sacrifice in
impact resistance to improve the abrasion and thermal
performance of a cutter.
There are no such trade-offs with the Trident Series PDC
cutters. We replace leaching with advanced synthesizing
at ultra-high pressures, which in tandem with smaller grain
sizes and enhanced bonding, delivers a truly balanced,
durable and thermally stable cutting pattern. In fact, with
Trident PDC cutters, BesteBit has effectively reduced the
cobalt concentration from the 17% of earlier generation
designs to less than 6% and without the diamond table
porosity and brittleness all-too-typical of a leached
cutter. In other words, our unique processes and material
selection ensure the highest level of abrasion resistance
and thermal stability without compromising maximum
shock absorption.

Footage Drilled

Beste

1900

44

40

1850

Average
Top 5

1800
1750

On a rotary steerable system offshore, a BesteBit

12 1/4-in. IADC M1965SS bit with Trident cutters
outperformed five offset runs with 12% higher ROP,
10% more footage and at 12% lower cost/ft.

Leached PDC cutters are old technology

The Trident Series is todays low cobalt,
non-leached new generation cutter.

A family of cutters for all

failure modes

2100
2050

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Separating BestBit PDC cutters from all the rest, and clearly reflected
in the Trident 4 technology, is our unequaled integration of enhanced
diamond feed blends with advanced synthesis processes that significantly
lowers the thermally-challenged diamond table. Specifically the bonds
between the diamond particles. That means we never sacrifice optimal
impact resistance by relying on arduous and time-worn leaching to
increase abrasion and thermal resistance.

ROP

52

48

0.05

While no PDC cutter obviously can deliver a one-design-fits-all solution to

impact, abrasion and thermal-induced failures, BesteBit gives you the next
best thing. Our new generation Trident Series PDC cutters represents
a step-change advancement in the engineering of field proven cutting
structures matched specifically to your most demanding applications.
With the addition of our groundbreaking Trident 4 cutter, which combines
unrivaled abrasion and impact resistance with thermal stability, we have
assembled the industrys most innovative portfolio of PDC bit cutters, and
one that helps ensure failure never has to be an option.

With our state-of-the-art forced-balanced cutting structure designs set

within the most stable frames in the industry and supported by the latest
generation analytical tools, little wonder why BesteBit is recognized as the
innovation leader in pioneering PDC bit technologies that fail more rock,
longer and faster.

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Trident PDC cutters keep

your bit on bottom, longer
On motor or rotary, bits incorporating Trident Series
PDC cutters consistently demonstrate field-leading
performance with more footage, higher ROP and,
importantly, lower cost/foot.

Beste Bits drilled 44% lower cost-per-foot

than five direct offsets
50

ROP

100

45

90

40

80

35

70

30

60

25

Beste

50

20

5
0

Beste

40

15
10

Cost per foot

30

Average
Top 5

20
10

Average
Top 5

Drilling a motor application, a 12 1/4-in. IADC

M1675SG bit with a Trident cutting structure beat
five direct offset runs drilling 43% faster and an
impressive 44% lower cost-per-foot.