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Drilling Fluids Fundamentals
A practical course on drilling fluids for mud engineers in training, derrickhands and mud loggers moving up, drilling engineers and drilling supervisors. It covers the functions and types of drilling fluid, additives, the API RP 13B field tests, rheology, ECD and hole cleaning, shale instability, lost circulation and formation damage, solids control, weight-up and dilution calculations, and the HSE side of mud work.
Taught by iCompetent
- Modules
- 8
- Lessons
- 38
- Duration
- 8h 14m
- Level
- Intermediate
- Quizzes
- 8 graded
- Enrolled
- 1
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Course content
8 modules · 38 lessons · 8h 14m
The circulating system and the seven jobs a drilling fluid does at the same time, with hydrostatic pressure worked through in field and metric units.
- The Mud System and the Seven FunctionsPreview12 min
- Hydrostatic Pressure and Mud Weight13 min
- Hole Cleaning, Suspension, Cooling and Lubrication12 min
- Wellbore Stability, Formation Protection and Information12 min
- What drilling fluid does — quiz7 questions · pass 70%
Topics covered
Drilling Fluids
Mud Engineering
API RP 13B
Rheology
Solids Control
Lost Circulation
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