Open AccessA New Alternative Thinner in the Drilling Fluid System
Author(s) -
Wissam H. Al-hashimi Al-hashimi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mağallaẗ al-buḥūṯ wa-al-dirāsāt al-nafṭiyyaẗ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2710-1096
pISSN - 2220-5381
DOI - 10.52716/jprs.v8i1.218
Subject(s) - drilling fluid , drilling , rheology , petroleum engineering , viscosity , process engineering , mechanical engineering , materials science , geology , engineering , composite material
The most important constituent of drilling operation success is keeping the drilling fluidrheological properties within a certain limit to maintain continuing their functions in a goodmanner. To achieve that, the drilling mud system needs continuous and direct supervision such asmeasuring its rheological properties and treating any deviation in their values. Viscosity is themost important property in hydraulic program success due to its direct relation with bottom holecleaning during drilling, thus related with the drilling rate, so this property should be keptbasically to ensure bottom hole cleaning and high drilling rate at the same time.Some chemicals such as thinner should be added to the mud system to keep both viscosity andother properties within certain standards and required limits; these materials have a high cost,increasing both the metric cost and the final cost of such well.The aim of this research is to test the physical and chemical properties for a local material, as athinner, which tends to decrease the rheological properties of drilling mud .Thirty nine samplesof different types of drilling mud are tested with both the native and foreign imported materials.The results for both additive materials are compared and concluded that the local thinner has thesame trend with the imported material to a certain limit.