A model that simulates how drilling fluids, or muds, behave and influence the stability of oil wells has been developed by KAUST researchers. Their findings could inform new safety protocols and the ...

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The key to stemming the stream of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico may be as clear as mud. Spill officials said this morning that blasting the leaking well with "heavy drilling mud" seem to be ...

Drilling deeper, longer and more challenging wells has been made possible by improvements in drilling technologies, including more efficient and effective drilling fluids. Drilling fluids, also ...

Kazem Javanmardi, Ken D. Flodberg Shell Offshore Inc. New Orleans James J. Nahm Shell Development Co. Houston A new mud-to-cement conversion technology has eliminated mud displacement problems, ...

On the front lines in the battle to kill the out-of-control oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is a material with the consistency of a half-melted milkshake and a mundane name: mud. But mud, more formally ...

The eruption of the Lusi mud volcano in Indonesia was caused by drilling for oil and gas, a meeting of 74 leading geologists has concluded. Lusi erupted in May 2006 and continues to spew out boiling ...