Drilling fluids are a critical component in modern drilling operations, serving multiple functions such as transporting rock cuttings to the surface, maintaining wellbore stability, lubricating ...

Drilling deeper, longer and more challenging wells has been made possible by improvements in drilling technologies, including more efficient and effective drilling fluids. Drilling fluids, also ...

Rig-site fluid test automation has lagged automated drilling technology and is now a bottleneck to real-time drilling diagnostics and decisions. A new automated mud skid (AMS) addresses this gap by ...

Vegetable ester-based drilling fluids may satisfy demanding technical criteria and strict environmental standards for offshore work. The rising world energy demand has led to exploration for oil and ...

Push, pull, turn, pump - the basic tasks associated with horizontal directional drilling (HDD) sound pretty straightforward. Yet maneuvering around buried obstacles you can't see, and boring under ...