Mud logging is the surface-based, real-time geological and drilling surveillance conducted during well construction to characterize formations, monitor wellbore conditions, and enhance well control. I ...

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-FLUID is now an important factor in oilfield development, but although it has actually been in use for more than sixty years, comparatively little technical literature is available on the subject.

Texaco Inc. is drilling what it says is the first dual-gradient well using a subsea-mudlift drilling system developed by a joint industry project led by Conoco Inc. The Shasta field No. 8 is in 910 ft ...

Caturus Energy has announced a multiyear contract with Nabors Industries for the deployment of the onshore drilling rig PACE-X Ultra X33. Caturus executes long laterals and deep, high-pressure wells ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said on Wednesday it appears drilling mud, not oil, was gushing from a ruptured undersea well six hours into an effort to halt a growing oil ...