Managing drilling mud weight using ilmenite
Drilling mud plays an important role when drilling an oilwell, where it produces sufficient hydrostatic pressure that could prevent the influx of formation fluids into the wellbore. Barium sulphate, which is more commonly known as barite in the petroleum industry, is the principle weighting material...
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Faculty of Engineering, UPM,
1999.
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