Drilling fluids – Best Practices This article presents some tips for running drilling fluid systems.…

Hydraulics Optimization – Hole Cleaning To optimize hydraulics and achieve sufficent hole cleaning the following…

Example Hydraulic Optimisation Programme For the calculations the following parameters have been used: 26in and…

Downhole Density Measurements Mud density will decrease with increasing temperature, and increase with increasing pressure.…

Mud Products Inventory Form In order to mix the mud for the drilling of a…

Funnel Viscosity – Mud Testing The main use of this test is to indicate trends,…

Sand Content – Mud Testing This is a simple test designed to measure the level…

pH – Water Based Mud Testing pH control is important with all water based mud…