Composition and Properties of Drilling and Completion Fluids, Fifth Edition covers the fundamental principles of geology, chemistry, and physics that provide the scientific basis for drilling fluids technology.

New material in this edition for drilling, logging, and production supervisors and engineers exlains how the choice of a drilling fluid and proper maintenance can profoundly reduce total well costs.

Composition and Properties of Drilling and Completion Fluids, Fifth Edition also defines technical terms necessary to the understanding of instructions and information provided by the mud engineer. Updated chapters discuss evaluation of drilling fluid performance, clay mineralogy and colloid chemistry, rheology, filtration properties, hole stability, drilling problems, and completion fluids.

Contents

1. Introduction to Drilling Fluids
2. The Development of Drilling Fluids Technology
3. Equipment and Procedures for Evaluating Drilling Fluid Performance
4. Clay Mineralogy and the Colloid Chemistry of Drilling Fluids
5. The Rheology of Drilling Fluids
6. The Filtration Properties of Drilling Fluids
7. The Surface Chemistry of Drilling Fluids
8. Hole Stability
9. Drilling Problems Related to Drilling Fluids
10. Completion, Workover, and Packer Fluids
11. Drilling Fluid Components

Appendices

• Conversion Factors
• Abbreviations Used in References

Index

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