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Don't get fooled by describing drilling fluid additives in your sample descritions
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Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise)
I welcome your comments or corrections on any information stated here, this is a work in progressPlease email me photos of any other materials you have, or lend me samples if you have them
BJ Flex Sand(pure sample)
appears to be walnut shells with "oily" coatingused to plug perfs?
Calcarb(pure sample)
Powdered calcium carbonate ?
Calcarb flakes(pure sample)
Calcium flakes for lost circ?
Doug Hayden [email protected]
Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise)
Calcium flakes(in cuttings)
Carbon(pure sample)
weighting material to lighten mud??)
Celophane(pure sample)
LCM
Doug Hayden [email protected]
Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise)
Chicken Grit (calcium carbonate)(in cuttings,but in abundance)
Concrete(in cuttings)
seen when drilling out of casing settingwhen dissolved in 10% Hcl stains acid yellow
Fed seal(pure sample)
mixture of natural & synthetic fibreslooks like sawdust, some plastic??
Doug Hayden [email protected]
Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise)
Floor Dry (diatomaceous earth?)(pure sample)
highly absorbant material
G Seal(pure sample)
Graphite, lubricant?
Gypsonite (Gipsonite?)(pure sample)
Doug Hayden [email protected]
Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise)
Mica(pure sample)
usually see feldspar/ granitic mineralswhich are by-products of original source
Nutseal (walnut shells)(pure sample)
Poultry Grit(pure sample)
AKA Chicken gritlimestone, often fossiliferous
Doug Hayden [email protected]
Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise)
Processed Lime(pure sample)
powder, usually white or very light colored
Quick Lime (calcium oxide)(in cuttings)
often seen in invert mud wellsused to absorb, reduce water contentsoluable in water, insoluable in petroleum-basedsolvents (I.e. diesel)
Brick (red)(picked from cuttings)
used as a lag marker in old wells
Doug Hayden [email protected]
Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise)
Sawdust(picked from cuttings)
will look like carbonaceous/ coaly materialif overheated/burnt if dryed over heat source
Supercal(pure sample)
Calcium carbonate, finer ground
Vinseal(pure sample)
please help, not sure of compositionor application
Doug Hayden [email protected]
Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise)
Walnut shells(pure sample)
note different colors, texturesof interior vs outer part of shell
Weird spongy I
seen in 70's vintage well
any ideas?
Weird Spongy II
as above
Doug Hayden [email protected]