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 ...

Blender: The equipment used to prepare the slurries and gels commonly used in stimulation treatments. Modern blenders are computer controlled, enabling the flow of chemicals and ingredients to be ...

Crews from private oil and gas companies helped mop about 300 barrels of drilling mud that started bubbling from a long-abandoned well on private property northeast of Berthoud on Sunday. A person who ...

Mud pulse telemetry is a pivotal technology in modern drilling operations, enabling the transmission of downhole measurements to the surface via modulated pressure pulses in the circulating drilling ...

Kazem Javanmardi, Ken D. Flodberg Shell Offshore Inc. New Orleans James J. Nahm Shell Development Co. Houston A new mud-to-cement conversion technology has eliminated mud displacement problems, ...

Drilling supervisors at GDF Suez E&P Deutschland GMBH have used a visual road map to control drilling operations since March 2008. The Leer Z5-5 is one of the tight gas wells recently drilled by GDF ...

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, ...