Learn about drilling mud, also known as drilling fluid, which facilitates borehole drilling for oil, gas, and sampling by ...

Alberta Oil Magazine – Drilling mud has always been a critical part of drilling a well – but never more than today, amidst a technological revolution that is sending drill bits farther and farther ...

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 ...

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, ...

Vermeer's new SA400 mud pump continuously delivers drilling-fluid flow at any pump speed during drill operations. With the addition of the 350-hp SA400, Vermeer now offers pipeline contractors a ...

A leak at the Delaware County site of the Sunoco pipeline caused thousands of gallons of drilling mud to flow into a creek. During an incident Monday around 1 p.m. which officials described as an ...

Mud engineering designs, builds, operates, and continually optimizes the drilling fluid system to deliver wellbore stability, cuttings transport, pressure control, and equipment protection—safely and ...

Drilling for gas most probably caused the eruption of an Indonesian mud volcano, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people, scientists report. "[The eruption] appears to have been triggered by ...

A catastrophic mud eruption in Indonesia blamed on drilling by an oil company might instead have natural causes, new research suggests. In 2006, the largest mud volcano on the planet was born when ...