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Water Based Drilling Fluids

This document discusses various types of water-based drilling muds, noting that freshwater and produced water were initially used before commercially produced clays were added to improve viscosity and fluid loss control. Over time, the performance of water-based muds has increased through the use of water-soluble polymers and specialty additives, and muds often transition from basic systems to more complex systems tailored to increasing downhole conditions and formation needs.

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Water Based Drilling Fluids

This document discusses various types of water-based drilling muds, noting that freshwater and produced water were initially used before commercially produced clays were added to improve viscosity and fluid loss control. Over time, the performance of water-based muds has increased through the use of water-soluble polymers and specialty additives, and muds often transition from basic systems to more complex systems tailored to increasing downhole conditions and formation needs.

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Water Based Muds

Intro to Drilling Fluids


Water Base Fluids
Water Base Fluid
· Spud mud (Gel mud)
· Gel/Polymer Fluid Increasingly
· Lignosulfonate mud Inhibitive

· Calcium Base Fluids


· Salt-Saturated Muds
· KCl Polymer Fluids
· Glycol mud
· Silicate Mud
· Ultradril
Intro to Drilling Fluids
Water Based Muds
· In the early days of the drilling business, freshwater and produced
water were used as drilling fluids.

· Low annular velocities hindered cuttings from being properly


removed from wells - causing drilling problems

· In places where hydratable clays were present (termed “mud


making” shales) these tended to viscosify the water which
improved hole cleaning.

· Commercially produced clays - Wyoming Bentonite were added to


drilling muds to improve viscosity and fluid loss

· Present technology has pushed the performance envelope of


drilling fluids by utilizing water soluble polymers and specialty
additives to assist the drilling Intro
process
to Drilling Fluids
Water Based Muds
· Many types of water-

Mud System becoming increasingly complex


Spud
based mud systems Mud

Increasing Temperature and Pressure


Dispersed
· Basic systems are usually Systems
converted to more
complex systems as a Inhibitive
well is deepened, as Polymer Muds
wellbore temperatures
and/or pressures increase High
and formations dictate Temperature
Polymer Muds

· More than one fluid Non-Damaging


system is typically used Drill in Fluids
when drilling the same Intro to Drilling Fluids

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