Kuwait Drilling Fluids - MI SWACO
Kuwait Drilling Fluids (KDF) of Kuwait City, together with M-I SWACO (A Schlumberger Company), develops and delivers solutions that benefit their customers in the oil and gas sector. KDF has rolled out a growing number of new cost-effective products in order to maximize their customers drilling performance.
In the inaugural Middle East Stevie awards, Kuwait Drilling Fluids won the 2020 Gold Stevie Award for their new High-Performance Water-Base Fluid, an environmentally friendly alternative to oil-based Non-Aqueous Fluids (NAFs) for drilling challenging wells.
Water-based drilling fluids deliver cost-effective, efficient performance with minimized environmental impact. Onshore, the system can be customized to provide shale inhibition without the use of salts, making cuttings ideally suited for land farming. The system is equally fitted for offshore operations, displaying a low marine toxicity and employing fast biodegradation rates.
As part of a major operator’s environmental improvement strategy, the KDF Operator and Fluids Provider Team identified ‘potentially fit for purpose High Performance Water Base Mud’ (HPWBM) as the most suitable, environmentally acceptable alternative to NAF’s. The field trial was a great success and the operator decided to use the system in several fields to replace their oil based systems.
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