Drilling deeper, longer and more challenging wells has been made possible by improvements in drilling technologies, including more efficient and effective drilling fluids. Drilling fluids, also ...

Occidental Petroleum Corp. successfully performed post-fracturing cleanouts in Midland basin using aphron fluids in depleted reservoirs requiring light fluids with low leakoff properties. Comparison ...

A 60-page "Drilling Fluids and Health Risk Management: A Guide for Drilling Personnel, Managers and Health Professionals in the Oil and Gas Industry" guide posted last month by two European ...

The pre-Caspian basin has the most promising onshore deep oil and gas bearing zones in the former Soviet Union. Also it is already one of the world's most important oil producing areas. A large ...

Global mining technology company IMDEX developed the IMDEX MUD Automated In-field Diagnosis (AID) to optimise fluid management, as drilling fluids can be critical to how successfully the drilling ...