Drilling Fluids Processing Handbook
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 693
ISBN-13: 9780080477411
Subjects: Shale shakers; Handbooks, manuals; Drilling muds
Description: The only resource available to the drilling and petroleum engineer on drilling fluids processing.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Biographies; Preface; 1 Historical Perspective and Introduction; 2 Drilling Fluids; 3 Solids Calculation; 4 Cut Points; 5 Tank Arrangement; 6 Scalping Shakers and Gumbo Removal; 7 Shale Shakers; 8 Settling Pits; 9 Gas Busters Separators and Degassers; 10 Suspension Agitation and Mixing of Drilling Fluids; 11 Hydrocyclones; 12 Mud Cleaners; 13 Centrifuges; 14 Use of the Capture Equation to Evaluate the Performance of Mechanical Separation Equipment Used to Process Drilling Fluids; 15 Dilution; 16 Waste Management; 17 The AC Induction Motor; 18 Centrifugal Pumps.; title: 19 Solids Control in Underbalanced Drilling20 Smooth Operations; Appendix; Glossary.