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Coring Services
Coring Services

As the leader in coring technology, NOV Downhole Coring Services provides innovative coring solutions to meet your coring concerns, all backed with outstanding proof of performance.

Common problems such as operational concerns and reservoir data quality problems are eliminated with the multiple solutions NOV Downhole offers for intricate well designs and challenging formations, while delivering accurate reservoir data.

Coring Challenges

Operational Concerns:

  • Multiple drill-string trips
  • Safety issues
  • Increased time and cost
  • Slow rate of penetration (ROP)
Reservoir Data Quality Problems:
  • Under-gauged core
  • Fluid invasion
  • Poor core recovery

Coring Solutions

Corion Express® Wireline Coring
Coring, drilling and logging on demand without tripping

  • Maximizes coring efficiency
  • Mitigates formation wash-outs, sloughing and cave-ins caused by excessive swab and surge
  • Improves reservoir analysis through superior core quality
  • Assisted operators in over 1,000 wells
Corion Express®, when compared to conventional coring services, resulted in 6 fewer trips, 46% more recoverable core, and 61% less coring time.

Conventional Coring
Utilizes the latest advances in core bit and core catcher technology
  • Maximizes ROP, core recovery and core quality

Sponge Coring
Premier core quality for advanced reservoir analysis such as:
  • Oil saturation, permeability and wettability
Oriented Coring
Quality core data gives a better understanding of the reservoir


Thermostable Cutter Technology
ReedHycalog® Raptor® thermostable cutter technology:
  • Core in formations that were historically not PDC drillable
  • Improve rate of penetration and core quality