american augers mud pump pricelist

The track-mounted American Augers DD-440T horizontal directional drill offers 440,000 lbs. of thrust/pullback and continues to perform successful crossings for the pipeline industry. The carriage system is engineered with a two-pinion drive with an adjustable force limiter and a maximum carriage speed of 95 ft per minute. The advanced rotary drive includes a three-pinion and gear drive that permits 60,000 ft-lbs of maximum rotary torque and a rear-mounted mud swivel that provides up to 650 gpm of mud flow.

American Augers is a leading manufacturer of underground and utility construction equipment, including large directional drills, auger boring machines, mud pump and cleaning systems, trenchers and tooling and accessories. The company provides customer support around the world 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Aurora, Illinois-based TT Technologies has introduced a new line of compact rigs from Prime Drilling. These rigs range from 66,000 to 180,000 lbs and have rotary torque up to 33,000 ft-lbs. The units are self-contained and therefore transportation and setup times are greatly reduced. The units feature a specially designed, space-saving, onboard high-pressure pump ideal for greater maneuverability and jobsite flexibility.

The Vermeer D220x300 Navigator HDD has 242,100 lbs of thrust/pullback and 30,200 ft-lbs of rotational torque. The D220x300 HDD has a high power-to-size ratio for its footprint of 37-ft long and 8.5 ft wide. This means the versatility to perform urban utility work, as well as large pipeline installation. The drill is self-contained, with an onboard operator cabin, mud pump, optional crane and rod stager. The smaller footprint provides more efficient access to confined jobsites and less need for extraneous support equipment.

The onboard Weatherford triplex mud pump has a maximum capacity of 330 gpm  and provides sufficient flow of drilling fluid for large-diameter pipe pullback. The D220x300 sliding-arm rod stager can stage five rods at a time, allowing for increased boring efficiency. Adding to the smaller footprint, this drill uses 20-ft rod instead of the longer 34-ft Range II drill pipe, which is standard for a drill of this capacity.

American Augers products are manufactured at the company"s 241,000 square-foot facility in West Salem, Ohio, in the heart of Amish country between Columbus and Cleveland.

Since the founding of American Augers in 1970, there has never been a change in the company"s core value; having products developed by a can-do work force that focuses on mechanical, technological and customer-based design improvements. Our goal is to always exceed customer expectations by providing products that are not a cost of doing business, but an investment in success.

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The costs associated with containing and disposing of used drilling mud can be significant and are based on many factors. These costs may include containment equipment (vacuum excavators), transport equipment to send the used drilling fluid to an approved disposal site (truck/vacuum excavator/CDL driver/fuel, mileage), and disposal charges. And the hassle does not end with disposal costs.

For this reason, it is imperative to remove these solids from the drilling fluid before it is returned through the system. “HDD drilling fluid has multiple functions, including cooling downhole electronics, lubricating downhole tooling, and stabilizing and sealing the bore hole to prevent fluid loss into the formation. But, a less recognized property is that drilling fluid acts as a conveyor belt to move the solids from the drilling head through the bore hole to the surface,” says Richard Levings, director of product management for American Augers.

An Oklahoma contractor was performing a 1,340 ft river crossing bore installing 16-in. steel pipe. The process of opening the hole was producing solids as high as 30 to 40 percent and sand contents as high as 11 percent. Mud weights in the pit were experienced above 13 lbs per gallon. The goal of any cleaning system is to remove as many drilled solids from the drilling fluid as quickly and efficiently as possible, all the while drying solids to decrease their weight and minimize disposal costs. The cleaned fluid should have the least amount of drilled solids possible (normally mud weights below 9 lbs per gallon) and the sand content should remain less than .5 percent to be pumped back down hole. Maintaining proper fluid properties and removing solids from the fluid mixture have proven to help facilitate a more efficient and cost-effective drilling operation.

In order for the contractor to minimize the amount of fluid required for the job and avoid high disposal costs, he employed a portable drilling fluid cleaning system. An American Augers M-200D fitted with a single FLC 503 3-Panel shaker from Derrick with five 4-in. cones over the second screen panel to handle high capacity solids laden drilling fluid from a backreamed hole was used in this operation. Equipped with Derrick’s patented Pyramid screen technology, the FLC 503 acted as both a scalping shaker and mud cleaner. The drilling fluid was pumped from the pit onto the shaker and the first screen panel, providing the primary separation. The fluid and undersized solids flowed through the screen to the first tank compartment below the shaker.

The M200D tank agitation worked to ensure no solids settled in the tank. From this tank, the fluid was pumped to the cones which were intentionally positioned over the second screen panel. Finer screens were run on the second and third screen panels to dewater the cone underflow, essentially acting as a mud cleaner. Proper cone pump size ensured coned pressures were consistent so smaller solids could be separated from the fluid in the cones. Cleaned fluid flowed out the top of the cones and into the second tank compartment. The fluid was then pumped back through the HDD unit for use down hole. While back reaming from a 12- to 18-in. hole for 1,340 ft over two days, the M-200D processed 100 percent of the fluid from the hole. The percentages of solids and sand content were monitored during the entire process. Over the course the 1,340-ft backream, 213 tons of solids were produced by the M-200D.

During the operation, unprocessed slurry in the exit side pit averaged as high as 11 percent sand content. Due to Derrick’s patented Pyramid screen technology and leading-edge shaker design coupled with proper pump and cone design of the M200D, the clean mud’s sand content was maintained at .5 percent or less throughout the duration of the job. Fluid was only added for hole volume and no known losses occurred during the operation. The job demonstrated the ability of a compact, single-deck fluid recycling system with high performance shaker and innovative screen technology to provide value added savings by way of reducing the dilution needed and the quantity of abrasive sand size particles. Findings showed the M-200D with its’ next level design and components to be as effective as larger conventional mud systems with double deck shakers and/or multiple shaker systems.