- Industry: Oil & gas
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A mud that contains no commercial weighting material. Native-solids muds are unweighted muds, containing no barite. More solids-control techniques are available for unweighted muds than for weighted muds. In fact, dilution of unweighted muds is highly economical.
Industry:Oil & gas
A mud that contains commercial weighting material such as barite or hematite. The economic difference in weighted and unweighted muds is the cost of replacing weighting material according to the solids control practices used. Solids control techniques, such as dilution or hydrocycloning, that can be economical in unweighted muds are not necessarily economical for weighted muds, although centrifugation (incorrectly called "barite recovery") is typically performed when using weighted muds to control mud viscosity.
Industry:Oil & gas
A mud sample taken after it has passed from the flowline and through the shale shaker screens to remove large cuttings. The out sample is also called the shale shaker sample. This mud has experienced the downhole pressures, temperatures and contamination that cause degradation. It is evaluated for needed treatments and compared, on a lagged time basis, with the corresponding "in" or mud-in sample.
Industry:Oil & gas
A mud test in which the mud sample is mildly agitated by rolling (or tumbling) for the duration of the test, usually performed at a selected high temperature. Typically, the mud sample is sealed in a mud-aging cell and placed in an oven that will roll (or tumble) the mud cells continually for a given period of time (often 16 hours or overnight). The cooled mud is tested for properties. A rolled (or tumbled) mud sample simulates circulation in the hole by pumping.
Industry:Oil & gas
A mud tank, usually made of steel, connected to the intake of the main rig pumping system. The connection is commonly formed with a centrifugal pump charging the main rig pumps to increase efficiency. Since it is the last tank in the surface mud system, the suction pit should contain the cleanest and best-conditioned mud on location. It is also the most representative of mud characteristics in the hole, except for temperature.
Industry:Oil & gas
A mud sample that exits directly out of the well from the annulus and is caught before it passes through the shale-shaker screens. A flowline mud sample contains drill cuttings entrained in the mud.
Industry:Oil & gas
A mud sample taken from the suction pit (the last pit in the flow series) just before the mud goes into the pump and down the wellbore. The in sample is also called the suction-pit sample, or "mud in" on a drilling fluid report. This mud has been treated and properly weighted and is in good condition to encounter downhole pressures, temperatures and contamination. Comparisons are made between properties of this mud-in sample and the "out" or mud-out sample taken at surface prior to solids removal.
Industry:Oil & gas
A mud motor incorporating a bent housing that may be stabilized like a rotary bottomhole assembly. A steerable motor can be used to steer the wellbore without drillstring rotation in directional drilling operations, or to drill ahead in a rotary drilling mode.
Industry:Oil & gas
A mud in which the suspended solids are dispersed clays, sand, chert and other rock that originated from formations being drilled. A spud mud is commonly a type of native-solids mud. Native muds can be economically diluted with water and passed through banks of desilters and desanders to keep solids down. No expensive weighting materials are being discarded and replaced in such a process. At the depth that higher density is required, native mud is usually totally or partially discarded and new mud is made using commercially prepared mud additives and barite.
Industry:Oil & gas
A mud in which the external phase is a product obtained from an oil, such as diesel oil or mineral oil.
Industry:Oil & gas
