RE: Enhancement of Local Clays for Drilling Fluids Applications
I'm glad you found interest in the article.
One of the aims of these research work was to see how to develop local content. And one of such contents are clays considering the fact that there are available in Nigeria in vast amounts.
Yes. There are shallow wells in some parts of Nigeria and water based muds could quite be useful. More so, there are lots of appraisal wells being drilled here in the country. And as you know, these types of wells are usually shallow in nature. However, there are also deep oil wells in the country.
Also, use of chemicals in beneficiating these local clays is quite expensive but not as expensive as the importation of foreign bentonite. So, cost could be reduced. More so, other related studies have shown that there are some locally sourced materials that could go for these chemicals such as potato starch etc.
In that case these local additives could be used thereby reducing cost.
Thank you.
Excellent @tomlee, then the study you conducted revealed that adding new components to the local clay to improve the rheological properties is economically feasible compared to importing foreign clay. So for me it is an excellent study that you did, I hope to continue to see new contributions like this in the study and evaluation of drilling fluids. Greetings, friend.
Exactly!
I'll sharethe results obtained very soon.