ABSTRACT

Plans of mud drilling methods used in a drilling largely determines the success or failure. Along with the rapid development of mud drilling technology, currently found mud types is characteristically very different from one another as a result of the added additives that is used to maintain the stability of mud on each depth. The drilling mud is also known for the use of polymer mud that essentially included in the mud system with the basic ingridients of salt water. The goal of adding weighting material Barite is to increase the density of drilling mud. At normal pressure, water and solids in the drilling is able to withstand the pressure of the formation. For pressures lower than normal (subnormal) density of the mud should be minimized so loss of circulation does not occur. In contrary, if the pressures are greater than normal then the addition of barite as a weight is necessary. On the other hand the main function of XCD polymer is as the main thickener in the sea water mud. It also served as a barrier to the weighting material. XCD begins to degrade at 350F and generally have less ability to control the filtration rate with the discovery of this polymer mud, a cost effective solution of the drilling operations has also been founded.

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