Xie, "Research on the determination of the strengths of the mud cakes formed by temporary bridging and plugging agents," Drilling Fluid and
Completion Fluid, vol.
Drilling and
completion fluids are expensive and are retrieved from the wellbore and taken onshore for processing and reuse.
They are also making investments to counter the adverse effects of
completion fluids on marine ecosystems.
Besides M-I SWACO, Halliburton is another major player in the Asia-Pacific drilling and
completion fluid market.
US contract drilling business provider Patterson-UTI Energy (NASDAQ:PTEN) said on Wednesday it has offloaded the assets of its Ambar Lone Star Fluid Services subsidiary, thus exiting the drilling and
completion fluid services business.
This multi-contract award follows an earlier conditional1 award to Halliburton in December 2018 for drilling and
completion fluids services.
This includes drilling muds,
completion fluids, production fluids, and environmental chemicals.
Gray, Composition and Properties of Drilling and
Completion Fluids, Elsevier, 7th, 2016.
The laboratory plans to introduce pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) and fluid phase behaviour, geology and geochemistry, flow assurance, drilling and
completion fluids testing, as well as oilfield microbiology services.