Every drilled oil and gas well is a quiet chemical battleground. Water-based drilling mud, the workhorse fluid that cools the ...

Considerable research has been devoted to wellbore instability in shale formations, but wellbore stability in brittle shale is still not resolved. Oil-based drilling fluids (OBDF) provide outstanding ...

NOV’s first-principles design approach delivered pump fluid ends that meet the demands of today’s challenging drilling operations. This is a preview of our ...

Rig-site fluid test automation has lagged automated drilling technology and is now a bottleneck to real-time drilling diagnostics and decisions. A new automated mud skid (AMS) addresses this gap by ...