Oil Field Drilling Fluid

Background/Requirement

 

• Guar gum, a high viscosity thickener, highly hydrophilic and difficult-to-disperse without fisheyes
• Gum dispersion is pumped into the wells to displace oil for recovery from porous rock
• High capacity, single-pass dispersion into hot or cold water

 

 

 

 

 

Quadro's Approach

 

• ZC3 in-line disperser, skid mounted with a discharge PD pump arrangement for performance with high viscosities and high solids addition rates
• Simple VFD pump control to provide :
  • Variable backpressure on ZC3 disperser controlling powder incorporation rate
  • Steady control of discharge concentration
  • Positive delivery of viscous gum dispersion to downstream processing
• Powder feed system to maintain full charge in powder hopper
• High/low level hopper detection with automated powder valve actuation

 

Summary

 

The traditional equipment choice to reduce the oil droplets is the Colloid Mill. When testing the Quadro Ytron Z Emulsifier vs. a colloid mill, the Z Emulsifier produces a product with a higher final viscosity.

 

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