Mud engineering designs, builds, operates, and continually optimizes the drilling fluid system to deliver wellbore stability, cuttings transport, pressure control, and equipment protection—safely and ...

Drilling in its broadest sense is any process that involves making a circular hole in a solid material or hard surface using a boring tool. With thousands of applications across industries, drilling ...

A new technique developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories using an inexpensive disposable fiber optics telemetry system to relay real-time information about the drilling process is ...

Determining the critical or optimum mud weight is not an easy task, especially when drilling horizontal wells. Drilling mud weight is an important factor in drilling, demanding significant attention ...

I.M. Kutasov MultiSpectrum Technologies Inc. Santa Monica, Calif. Sodium chloride added to drilling mud left in the annulus helps lower the fluid's freeze point, eliminating the chance of casing ...

Mud engineering designs, executes, and continuously optimizes the drilling fluid system to control subsurface pressures, stabilize the wellbore, remove cuttings, cool/lubricate the bit and BHA, ...