page_title: Mud Gas Separator
hierarchical_section_title: Mud Gas Separator
caption_attribution_description: English: Mud Gas Separator Process Flow
context_page_description: Mud Gas Separator is commonly called a gas-buster or poor boy degasser. It captures and separates the large volumes of free gas within the drilling fluid. If there is a "kick" situation, this vessel separates the mud and the gas by allowing it to flow over baffle plates. The gas then is forced to flow through a line, venting to a flare. A "kick" situation happens when the annular hydrostatic pressure in a drilling well temporarily falls below that of the formation, or pore, pressure in a permeable section downhole, and before control of the situation is lost.
  It is always safe to design the mud/gas separator that will handle the maximum possible gas flow that can occur.
context_section_description: Mud Gas Separator is commonly called a gas-buster or poor boy degasser. It captures and separates the large volumes of free gas within the drilling fluid. If there is a "kick" situation, this vessel separates the mud and the gas by allowing it to flow over baffle plates. The gas then is forced to flow through a line, venting to a flare. A "kick" situation happens when the annular hydrostatic pressure in a drilling well temporarily (and usually relatively suddenly) falls below that of the formation, or pore, pressure in a permeable section downhole, and before control of the situation is lost.
  It is always safe to design the mud/gas separator that will handle the maximum possible gas flow that can occur.
caption: Process Flow Diagram For Mud Gas Separator
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