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 ...

On-site fluids specialist (often called “mud engineer”) responsible for the design, testing, maintenance, and assurance of drilling and completion fluid systems to meet well objectives while ...

A graphene oxide-reinforced polymer network improved thermal stability and fluid rheology for well plugging and drilling operations under laboratory testing.

Considerable research has been devoted to wellbore instability in shale formations, but wellbore stability in brittle shale is still not resolved. Oil-based drilling fluids (OBDF) provide outstanding ...