Cutting-edge Fluid Additives
“Drilling fluids have many jobs from cooling and lubricating the drill bit to removing of cuttings, sealing and strengthening the wellbore whilst maintaining hydrostatic pressure to prevent kicks or blowouts, to name just a few.”
A field application of nanoparticle-based invert emulsion drilling fluids
“In this work, a modified process for the emulsion-based synthesis of NPs on a 20 m3 volume and its subsequent full-scale field testing are presented. Comparison between NP carrier fluids prepared under controlled environment in the laboratory and those prepared on a large scale in a mixing facility revealed very little variation in the main characteristics of the drilling fluid; including the size of the solid constituents.”