Enhanced cutting transport performance of water-based drilling muds using polyethylene glycol/nanosilica composites modified by sodium dodecyl sulphate

• Main Authors: Blkoor, Shafeeg O., Norddin, M. N. A. M., Ismail, Issham, Oseh, Jeffrey O., Risal, Abdul R., Basaleh, Saeed S., Mohamed, Moamen H., Duru, Ugochukwu I., Ngouangna, Eugene N., Yahya, Muftahu N.
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2023
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/107431/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoen.2023.212276

Reports from drilling oil and gas fields show that wellbore problems like difficult pipe tripping, increased bit wear, differential pipe sticking, too much torque and drag, and lost circulation still persist. This is especially true when drilling highly angled and horizontal sections of the well, wh...