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Drilling mud has several important functions and one of them is hole cleaning which I will discuss today. Transporting cutting from the wellbore is fundamental part of drilling operation and you will not be able to successfully drill the well if you do not pay attention to this basic concept.



Nowadays people have more focusing on new technology about drilling mud and try to improve drilling fluid properties to achieve hole cleaning because many wells drilled in the world are more… Continue

You may not know that drilling fluid or mud has several important functions helping us achieve goal to drill well. I would like to share about the functions of drilling fluid as follows;

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1. Transport cutting and dispose to surface - The drilling fluid brings the drilled material to the ground surface either by mud rheology and… Continue

A “Kick” or “Wellbore Influx” is undesirable flow of formation fluid into the wellbore and it happens when formation pressure is more than hydrostatic pressure in wellbore.



Several causes of Kick (Wellbore Influx) are listed below:



1. Lack of knowledge and… Continue