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    HYDRO-GUARD® Water-Based Drilling Fluid Delivering Stable Wellbore Through

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    The document discusses how a water-based drilling fluid system from Halliburton replaced a competitor's silicate mud, allowing an operator to successfully drill through troublesome shale in Egypt. The Halliburton system provided stable wellbore conditions and optimal shale inhibition. It allowed the operator to drill to total depth, run logs and casing, saving an estimated $200,000 versus the competitor's system.

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    The document discusses how a water-based drilling fluid system from Halliburton replaced a competitor's silicate mud, allowing an operator to successfully drill through troublesome shale in Egypt. The Halliburton system provided stable wellbore conditions and optimal shale inhibition. It allowed the operator to drill to total depth, run logs and casing, saving an estimated $200,000 versus the competitor's system.

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    N-FLOW Breaker Systems

    High Performance Water-Based Fluid

    HYDRO-GUARD water-based drilling fluid system replaced competitor silicate mud, delivering stable wellbore through troublesome shale
    Location: Egypt, Eastern Desert

    OPERATORS CHALLENGE Drilling through Rudies


    shale is a well known challenge in Eastern Desert / Red Sea concession, where this operator was looking for an engineered mud system that would enable the well to be successfully drilled to target depth, logged and cased, after

    Shale cuttings were observed on the shale shakers well inhibited and encapsulated, optimized HYDRO-GUARD mud system provided excellent shale stability as per customer.
    Additive to help ensure maximu m inhibition along with

    successive failures by a competitor to produce a usable


    hole with a silicate mud system. HALLIBURTONS SOLUTION Upon reviewing the fluid properties used previously, Halliburtons Baroid team

    extended exposure time. BARO-TROL PLUS additive was


    added before drilling the Rudeis shale to plug the microfractures and minimize pressure transmission in the highly stressed fractured formation.

    determined dispersion of clays in competitor's mud system


    produced an under gauged hole in the unstable shale, while

    severe losses in the pay zone resulted in damage to the


    reservoir section, leaving the operator unable to produce

    Using this system, the hole was drilled successfully to TD,


    after which four open hole wire line logs and 7-inch

    the well, which had to be abandoned.


    Based on extensive experience in the area, the Baroid team

    production casing were successfully run with no hole related


    problems. BARO-TROL PLUS additive provided extra shale stability in the Rudeis shale and acted as a lubricant along with the thin firm filter cake, enabling the operator to run the wire line logs and take pressure points successfully. ECONOMIC VALUE CREATED This engineered HYDRO-GUA RD mud system from Baroid helped the operator to drill, log and complete the well safely and economically, dropping cost per foot by 40 percent, to

    optimized a drilling fluid solution to provide maximu m


    shale stability, customizing the use of shale inhibitors

    according to formation drilled and shale composition


    based on previous shale tests made in same field. The team recommended HYDRO-GUARD water-based drilling fluid system along with the addition of BARO-

    TROL PLUS additive to provide optimum inhibition in the


    troublesome shale. The full package of inhibitors included

    $14.92/ft, compared to the competitor cost of $63.16/ft. In


    addition to these estimated savings of $200,000, the

    CLAYSEA L shale stabilizer, which was primarily added


    before drilling the Kareem shale, followed by CLAY

    operator estimates the production based on pay zone


    pressure of 1250 psi, to be four times the expected rates.

    SYNC II shale stabilizer and CLAY GRABBER

    H010186

    04/13

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