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native clay
Oil & gas; Drilling
Clays incorporated into a so-called native-solids mud when drilling shallow formations. Native clays are undesirable in muds that are (or will be) weighted with barite. The ...
organophilic clay
Oil & gas; Drilling
Clay minerals whose surfaces have been coated with a chemical to make them oil-dispersible. Bentonite and hectorite (plate-like clays) and attapulgite and sepiolite (rod-shaped ...
neat cement
Oil & gas; Drilling
Cement that has no additives to modify its setting time or rheological properties.
beneficiation
Oil & gas; Drilling
Chemical treatment or mechanical processes that improve a mineral or ore for its designed use. For example, barite and bentonite clay minerals are beneficiated in order to help ...
sized calcium carbonate
Oil & gas; Drilling
Calcium carbonate, such as limestone, marble or oyster shells, that has a specified minimum and maximum range of particle sizes and may also have a specified distribution of ...
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