Learn about drilling mud, also known as drilling fluid, which facilitates borehole drilling for oil, gas, and sampling by ...

Alberta Oil Magazine – Drilling mud has always been a critical part of drilling a well – but never more than today, amidst a technological revolution that is sending drill bits farther and farther ...

The key to stemming the stream of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico may be as clear as mud. Spill officials said this morning that blasting the leaking well with "heavy drilling mud" seem to be ...

On the front lines in the battle to kill the out-of-control oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is a material with the consistency of a half-melted milkshake and a mundane name: mud. But mud, more formally ...

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, ...

Lone Star Drills, a division of Little Beaver Inc. and manufacturer of portable drilling equipment, upgraded its LS200H and LS200H+ model drills with a Flomax 10 mud pump powered by an 8-hp Honda ...

According to the company, Ahmad Mohammadi, NISOC CEO, said the mud, weighing 174pcf, was produced for drilling operations in Bibi Hakimeh Field. He said the heaviest drilling mud is 164 pcf but a ...

Vermeer's new SA400 mud pump continuously delivers drilling-fluid flow at any pump speed during drill operations. With the addition of the 350-hp SA400, Vermeer now offers pipeline contractors a ...

A leak at the Delaware County site of the Sunoco pipeline caused thousands of gallons of drilling mud to flow into a creek. During an incident Monday around 1 p.m. which officials described as an ...

A catastrophic mud eruption in Indonesia blamed on drilling by an oil company might instead have natural causes, new research suggests. In 2006, the largest mud volcano on the planet was born when ...