Versa-Drive service milled 157 plugs across four 11,000-ft laterals, saved $120,000 USD Challenges • Customer needed to remove a total of 157 frac plugs from four wells as efficiently as possible • Each well had a 20,000-ft TMD and a 11,000-ft lateral section • 265 °F (129 °C) bottomhole temperature • Customer wanted to eliminate short trips Results • Enabled higher torque and flow rates to improve milling performance • Milled all plugs in each well in a single run • Experienced zero motor stalls • Required no short trips • Achieved an average millout time of 7.5 minutes per plug • Saved the customer more than $30,000 USD per well in CT time and footage charges A customer in the Eagle Ford shale play in south Texas had drilled four 20,000-ft

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