Enteq Technologies plc announced that it has completed the preliminary live drilling testing for SABER in a hard rock environment at a test-site in Norway. The tool drilled over 100m through granite, demonstrating functionality of key elements of the system and confirming that the critical flow diverter can operate effectively to generate differential pressure and maintain a constant steering angle. Further valuable feedback on the tool performance was gained from this testing programme identifying as expected, some minor engineering changes for implementation prior to commercialisation.

This encouraging performance has given the green light to proceed to additional directional drilling testing which is scheduled in North America and then customer field trials.