Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Petroleum Goodies: Oil-Base Mud

Petroleum Goodies: Oil-Base Mud


Oil-Base Mud

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:00 AM PDT

Oil-Base Mud: An emulsion whose continuous phase is oil. Previously, the words described an oil mud made up of lower than about 5 vol.% water. This particular description, at that time, distinguished mud with lower than 5 vol.% water from invert-emulsion oil muds, that had greater than 5 vol.% water.

Nowadays, this variation is just not practical since most industrial oil muds can be created with more or lower than 5 vol.% water by using fundamentally the similar kinds of products. Commonly used in drilling.

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