GageDrill: Ensuring Wellbore Stability and Gauge Control
Prevent losses without lost circulation materials or cement plugs costs
The GageDrill Mixed-Metal Oxides (MMO) system is ideal for overcoming the challenges of drilling formations with high loss zones such as fractured formations and reactive shales.
The GageDrill MMO system provides a viscoelastic fluid at a steady-state that is readily shear-thinning during drilling, but acts as a gel preventing further penetration of the fluid into the loss zone.
Key applications: High fractured formations, milling fluid and unconsolidated formations
Fluid type: Mixed metal oxide (MMO) water-based drilling fluid systems
Temperature rating (max): 300°F (150°C)
Key performance characteristics: Lost circulation, unique viscoelastic rheology profile
Performance rating: Advanced. [Specialized]
Sustainability rating: Excellent. Water-based and organic components
Key features and advantages:
- Minimize disturbance to mechanically weak formations
- Can drill most lost zones and keep circulation after initial losses
- Tremendous hole cleaning and suspension capabilities
- Easy to break circulation
- Can easily be broken over
- Can run screens which are finer than normal
High loss inhibition
The GageDrill MMO system uses bentonite and a mixed metal oxide complex to give the drilling mud a unique viscoelastic rheology profile with the ability to inhibit losses while maintaining higher pump rates when drilling through loss zones.
The exceptional low-end rheology and high static gel strengths make it an ideal fluid for improved hole cleaning in larger hole sizes.
Why MMO fluids are a secret weapon against lost circulation
Mixed metal oxide fluids (MMO) are often widely under-estimated. Read our paper co-authored by R&D Manager, Pawilai Hallmark, to discover how the simplicity of the fluid, combined with a unique thixotropic profile and inherent ability to combat losses, means that GageDrill MMO significantly improves drilling performance.
Proven in challenging formations and fluid loss applications worldwide
- S.E. Gueydan Field, Vermillion Parish, Louisiana: Pea gravel, oyster beds and sands (AADE-03-NTCE-40)
- Tartagal, Salta, Argentina: Sands (AADE-03-NTCE-40)
- Rabi Field, Gabon, West Africa: Carbonates interbedded w/sands
- Cranberry Field, Western Alberta, Canada: Fractures
- West Congo: Depleted reservoir
- Irian Jaya: Fractured limestone reefs