Based on “Drilling Fluids Design and Field Deployment for the First HPHT Deepwater Production Project in the US Gulf of Mexico,” IADC/SPE-208668-MD, SPE/IADC International Drilling Conference and ...

Crews from private oil and gas companies helped mop about 300 barrels of drilling mud that started bubbling from a long-abandoned well on private property northeast of Berthoud on Sunday. A person who ...

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.— A coalition of environmental and public-health groups scored an important victory today when a regional water board voted 4-1 to kill a waiver that for years has allowed oil ...

Drilling deeper, longer and more challenging wells has been made possible by improvements in drilling technologies, including more efficient and effective drilling fluids. Drilling fluids, also ...

Mud pulse telemetry is a pivotal technology in modern drilling operations, enabling the transmission of downhole measurements to the surface via modulated pressure pulses in the circulating drilling ...

The report "Waste Disposal Regulations for Drilling Mud & Cuttings Technology, Cost Trends, Environmental Impact and Regional Regulatory Bodies by Mud Type (Water-Based, Oil-Based, Synthetic Based), ...

International scientists say they are almost certain a mud volcano that displaced tens of thousands of villagers in central Indonesia was caused by faulty drilling of a gas exploration well — not an ...

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 ...

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 ...