Applications and Treatment of oil-based mud

Advantages and disadvantages of oil-based mud:

Advantages: strong inhibition, temperature, lubricity, anti-pollution ability, oil layer protection, fast mechanical drilling speed.

Disadvantages: expensive, difficult to deal with lost circulation, poor resistance to water invasion, great impact on cementing and electrical survey, environmental protection issues (inconvenient discharge), unsuitable for drilling gas exploration wells.

oil-based mud treatment equipment
oil-based mud treatment equipment

The main applications of oil-based mud:

1) Drilling complex and troublesome shale; 2) Drilling high-temperature deep wells; 3) Drilling and coring of production zones; 4) Drilling salt formations, anhydrite formations, and miscellaneous salt formations; 5) Used as drilling fluid for directional wells ; 6) Used as a drilling fluid for slim holes; 7) Drilling formations containing H2S and CO2; 8) Used as perforation and completion fluid; 9) Used as a soaking fluid for releasing jam; 10) Used as a packing fluid; 11 ) Used as workover fluid; 12) Used as anti-corrosion control fluid; 13) Used as casing packer fluid.

How to deal with oil-based waste mud?

The effective treatment technology of oil-based waste mud is firstly to pass through the drilling shale shaker, desander and desilter integrated machine, centrifuge to discharge the mixture, after conveying, secondary screening, drying, centrifugal treatment, liquid phase slurry preparation and reuse, solid after solidification, discharge, air-drying, and other technological processes, the treated mud, water and other harmless substances can be recycled and reused. The waste can be used for landfill, road paving, well site construction, etc., and no direct pollution to the environment and potential environmental hazards. The treatment rate for the harmlessness and non-grounding of the mud discharged by the well team reaches 100%.

KOSUN is a professional oil-based mud treatment equipment manufacturer. KOSUN can customize efficient and economical drilling oil-based mud treatment equipment for customers according to the customer’s project site conditions. After the oil-based waste mud is effectively treated by KOSUN’s oil-based mud recovery and treatment system equipment , It can effectively retain the secondary reinjection and utilization of useful mud, and it also reduces the damage to the surrounding environment by on-site operations and meets the national environmental protection policy requirements for waste hazards.

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Application and separation effect of KOSUN vertical cuttings dryer

Vertical cuttings dryer can be used for many types of drilling mud, mainly used for oil-based and composite-based drilling cuttings drying. Similar to other solids control equipment, such as drilling fluid vibrating screen, drilling fluid centrifuge, cyclone separator, vertical drilling cuttings dryer, the processing capacity is also closely related to the mud viscosity. The viscosity of mud is determined by many factors, including solid content, particle size, drilling fluid type and drilling fluid temperature.

Vertical cuttings dryer
Vertical cuttings dryer 

The Vertical cuttings dryer is a new type of solid-liquid separation and drying equipment. It does not need to add drugs, the screen basket is not easy to be blocked, it occupies a small area, is easy to install and operate, it has a strong processing capacity, and the solid-phase moisture content of the treated waste is low, the maintenance cost is low, and it has become the first choice for domestic and foreign companies to solve the solid-liquid separation and drying and the non-ground treatment of mud while drilling or abandoned mud pools.The Vertical cuttings dryer can effectively control the cuttings water content (6%-15%) and oil content (2%-8%) in the drilling mud, stabilize the liquid phase performance, and achieve the purpose of drying the mud without landing.

With the continuous improvement of environmental protection requirements, high requirements have been put forward for the disposal of cuttings on the drilling site. The emergence of drilling waste treatment and purification systems can not only solve the on-site environmental problems, but also can carry out the waste generated by the on-site solid control system. The secondary recovery treatment can retain useful mud while intensively solidifying the reprocessed drill cuttings to reduce the damage to the surrounding environment caused by field operations. The use of waste mud cake after drilling waste treatment: it can be used for secondary utilization such as brick burning and road paving.

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China Vertical Cutting Dryer Manufacturer&supplier -KOSUN

Vertical Cutting Dryer is ascraper discharge centrifuge with single – stage continuous operation. KOSUN Vertical Cutting Dryer can effectively recover the oil component in the cuttings, with a processing capacity of 30-50 tons per hour, and the oil OOC content of the processed cuttings is less than 5%.

Vertical Cutting Dryer
Vertical Cutting Dryer

Vertical Cutting Dryer can be used in many types of drilling mud, mainly for oil based and composite mud. Similar to other solid control equipment, such as shake shale shaker, centrifuge, cyclone separator, drilling cuttings dryer processing capacity is also highly dependent on mud viscosity. Mud viscosity is determined by a number of factors, including solids content, particle size, type of drilling fluid and drilling fluid temperature.

Features and advantages of KOSUN Vertical Cutting Dryer:

1.efficient solid-liquid separation, the effective recovery of the mud in the drilling cuttings, a substantial reduction in solid emissions, solid oil content can be achieved after treatment of less than 5%.

2.effective recovery and reuse in the mud, mud circulation system, Recyclable due to slurry leakage, mobile derrick and mesh plug loss shaker.

3.commonly used wear parts can be replaced from the top of the device; no need to move any device, you can replace the belt.

4.In the  rotation scraper Sprayed Tungsten Carbide corrosion resistant material, can prolong the service life, reduce maintenance costs.

5.suitable for oil base mud drilling cuttings recovery.

6.to achieve the mud does not fall on the job requirements, reduce drilling fluid costs and waste disposal costs.

KOSUN Vertical Cutting Dryer through centrifugal force to separate oil and water from oil based cuttings and composite cuttings. Thus, the purpose of reducing harmful substances and recovering useful drilling fluid is achieved. As a manufacturer of Vertical Cutting Dryer, KOSUN can produce and sell VC series vertical cuttings dryers, which can solve the problem of waste disposal of oil based, water based and compound based drilling wastes in oilfield drilling.

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The function of drilling mud solids control system

Drilling mud solids control system is an important equipment for storing, distributing, circulating and purifying drilling fluid. Generally the drilling mud solids control system include drilling fluid tank, shale shaker, degasser, desander, mud cleaner, centrifuge and other necessary five purification equipment and overhead line, drilling pump suction pipe, mixed pump suction and discharge pipe, water pipe, drilling pipe, tubing, medium voltage gun drilling fluid, shear pump suction and discharge line, tank bottom pipe road, discharge pipe and other pipe lines.

drilling mud solids control system
drilling mud solids control system

Drilling mud solids control system is also equipped with drilling fluid replenishment device, weighted funnel, weighted pump, desander pump, desilting pump, shear pump, replenishment pump, base oil pump, agitator and other auxiliary equipment. In addition, there are also walkways, ladders, railings and other safety protection devices. It can effectively remove harmful solid phase in drilling fluid, retain useful solid phase, and provide good drilling fluid for drilling operations.

Focusing on solid control industry and drilling waste management, KOSUN has accumulated rich technical experience. Centrifuges and other products have been continuously extended to other industries such as food and environmental protection. With advanced technology, We focus on producing and developing equipment and technology suitable for various industries.

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Dredge Dewatering System-KOSUN

Considering the big mud content and difficult environmental management in the proccess of river dredging, KOSUN is aimed to design and research a integration Dredge Dewatering Solution in order to save a lot of cost for customer. At present, KOSUN can design and configurate different model Dredge Dewatering System to meet requirements of different customers according to the working condition of river silt the customer provided. 

Dredge Dewatering System
Dredge Dewatering System

KOSUN Dredge Dewatering System are applied to Lake dredging, river dredging, pond reservoir dredging engineering, municipal pipelines dredging sludge, clear water stations desilting, river dredging engineering, enterprise slag settling pond engineering, drainage sewage dredging engineering such as dredging project.

KOSUN Dredge Dewatering System is mainly consist of shale shaker, desander, desilter and decanter centrifuge. In the actual selection process, the 3-6 stage separation system can be selected based on different situations. Dredge Dewatering System can make the water content of the slurry under 80% and can decrease the slurry volume. That can be transported by the common slag car to save more transportation cost.

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Dredge Slurry Separation System

River dredging process system is generally adopts a cutter suction dredger to absorb the muddy water mixture at the bottom of river, and then transport it along the pipeline to a sludge drying treatment field. After machine sorts the garbage mixed in mud, the mud is passed into the concentration tank in the field, and the mud water separation is carried out through the mud treatment system. Finally, water reaches the standard discharge, and the wet sludge is sent to sludge dewatering equipment to dehydrate and becomes solidified mud cake for reusing.

Dredge Slurry Separation System mainly used for the separation of sludge from rivers. KOSUN Dredge Slurry Separation System is consist of shale shaker, desander, desilter or decanter centrifuge for 3 to 6 stage separation depending on the needs.

KOSUN Dredge Slurry Separation System is consisting of 3 parts. The first one is the dredging boat and first stage separation pool for large size of the trash. The dredging boat is always moving on the surface of the lake or river, and the suction unit would go down deep to the bottom of the lake or river and then suck sludge then transfer to the ground by a hose which is always float on the water surface. On the ground, there will be a pool which is divided into several parts by different mesh size of wire screen. The sludge flow coming out from the hose will get into the pool; the large size of the trash in the sludge would be blocked by these several wire screens, while the slurry will flow away for next process.

The second part of the Dredge Slurry Separation System is the recycling system which is including several equipment that is used especially for the solids and liquid separation. The slurry will be fed into a scalping shaker, here the solids which is large than 1/8 inch would be separated out, and the slurry would then be pump transferred to the desander for much fine solids removing. After treated by the desander, almost all the solids with size of 50 microns would be removed out.

The third part of the Dredge Slurry Separation System is the ultra-fine solids removing equipment. Some contractors like to use the filter press as the final solids removing units, the solids separated are really dry and shaped like cake. While another option is to use the decanter centrifuge that could be used to remove the ultra-fine solids with size down to 2 microns. After treated by the filter press or the centrifuge, the water is already clean that could be flow back to the lake or river.

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Tunnel muck treatment System-KOSUN

Xi’an KOSUN Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd. focuses on development and services of complete technologies and equipment of sludge and Tunnel muck reduction and resource utilization.Our Tunnel muck treatment System had been successful used in shenzhen,China.

Tunnel muck should be considered as a valuable resource: if it is managed and treated correctly, it can be used for different purposes. This would lead not only to environmental benefits but also those of an economic nature. This work is part of the REMUCK project and it has the purpose of evaluating the effects of different treatments on different types of excavated rock. Five case studies have been selected and, of these, two were excavated with TBM (the Torrent-La Thuile tunnel and the Brennero tunnel), one with EPB (the Turin underground railway) and two using traditional excavation methods (Turin underground railway station and the Omegna tunnel). Tests have been carried out in the laboratory on both the muck in its natural state and on muck treated in two different plants (a mobile plant and a fixed plant) in order to characterise the aggregates from the shape and mechanical resistance points of view (according to EN 933-3 and EN 1097-2, respectively). The results of these tests have been compared with the threshold values foreseen in a muck management plan for a tunnel in Switzerland in order to verify the quality of the treatments the recycled aggregates were subjected to. This has made it possible to evaluate the suitability of the treatments, on the basis of the foreseen types of use, and to propose alternative working schemes for the nonconforming cases.

Italy is one of the first countries in the world as far as the number of tunnels is concerned. Many new tunnels are currently under construction or have been planned (300 km of railway tunnels and 150 km of road tunnels, some more than 500 m long, but also metropolitan tunnels). Tunnels are usually excavated in mountain areas of great value: the longest ones in Italy are in fact located in the Alps or in the Apennine mountain range. Approach: If the re-use of excavated material is not taken into account each time a tunnel is excavated, new quarries are required to obtain aggregates for cement, asphalt and concrete and new landfills are created, to allocate the tunnel muck. If the planned tunnel is large (in size and length), numerous quarries and landfills can be expected in the vicinity of the tunnel, with a consequent considerable amount of environmental damage. Results and Conclusion: For these reasons and not only for the obvious economic reasons, it is necessary to develop all the technologies that make the re-use of muck possible as an aggregate for cement and asphalt and as material for road and railways embankments.

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Piling Mud Treatment Solution-Pilling Slurry Separation Plant

Pilling Slurry Separation has always been a problem in engineering construction. In the process of piling, there will produce a lot of mud, the mud is suspension liquid contains a certain amount of fine clay particles, which has a certain viscosity and difficult to separation for a long time.

Now how can we treatment these mud from piling? There are four Pilling Slurry Separation Methods:

Pilling Slurry Separation Plant

1.Pilling Slurry Separation Plant: This method is to use the special pile mud treatment equipment to separate the mud from slurry water. Such as piling mud centrifuge, piling mud dewatering machine, piling mud separator, piling mud curing equipment. The biggest advantages of this method is convenient and effort. Sludge treatment efficiency, more environmental protection.

  • Pilling Slurry Separation Method of Sedimentation basin : On construction site, we can construct one sedimentation basin. First, we need to discharge sewage into sedimentation basin. Removing suspended solids, oil material and Neutralization processing, after detection to achieve discharge standard, we can discharge into the river.


3.Pilling Slurry Separation Method of Natural dehydration: In the process of drilling perfusion, we can use shaker screen to seprate small gravel, sand and other solid particles from pile mud. then discharge it into mud pit and sufficient to precipitate until the natural dehydration and solidification.


4.Pilling Slurry Separation Method of Flocculation Treatment: For waste mud water, we can add flocculants into it. Because the mud is suspension liquid contains a certain amount of fine clay particles, the macromolecule flocculant is a kind of water-soluble polymer,When mixed with mud water, it can destroy the stability of the slurry water in order to settlement of clay particles from the water condensed quickly.

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There are three types of mud shale shaker motion.

In the process of oil drilling drilling fluid from internal carotid out through shale shaker, then in other solids control equipment, in the solid phase removal equipment of shale shaker is itself a filterability spate separation equipment, in the mud of a complete set of cleaning system, it has the first, the characteristics of fast drilling fluid solid phase separation, at the same time is also a kind of economic, efficient spate separation equipment.

There are three types of mud shaker motion: circular, elliptical and linear motion, the oscillator in the center of gravity, will produce circular motion; When the oscillator is above the center of gravity of the system, elliptic motion is generated. However, for elliptic motion, the screen surface must have a slope in order to utilize the conveying cuttings, but the screen capacity will be reduced. The linear motion is to put the oscillator in front of the center of gravity of the system, making the screen frame produce linear motion, thus clearing the solid phase. The vibrating screen moves in a straight line with its fixed cuttings transfer speed. The screen surface can be flat or slightly tilted.

The ES series elliptic vibrating screen of KOSUN adopts the long tube vibrating motor as the power source, the performance is superior, the structure is reasonable, the operation is stable, the life is long, the maintenance cost is low. Under the same conditions, compared with other types of shaker, drilling mud processing capacity and sand transport and discharge capacity can be greatly improved, and can effectively overcome the “screening”, “screening paste” phenomenon.

KOSUN LS series linear vibrating screen using the vibration motor excitation to cheer for the vibration source, make the material being thrown up on screen, at the same time, forward a straight line with low consumption, high output, simple structure, easy maintenance, fully closed structure, no dust overflow, and the advantages of automatic discharge, more suitable for assembly line, at the same time family newsletter QZS linear vibrating screen can also be adjusted through the AWD regulating series of solid separation effect.Linear vibrating screen has obvious advantages in the treatment of large displacement drilling fluid. In this condition, the strong excitation force output by the linear vibrating screen can quickly remove a large number of solid phases through efficient linear vibration trajectory, which can effectively remove large particles in the drilling fluid.

Drilling fluid linear vibrating screen in the processing of drilling fluid.

The linear vibrating screen USES the short or long tube vibration motor as the power source, the performance is superior, the structure is reasonable, the operation is stable, the life is long, the maintenance cost is low. Under the same conditions, compared with other types of shaker, drilling mud processing capacity is stronger, sand transport chip capacity is greater.

Purpose of linear vibrating screen: LS series vibrating screen is the first stage solid control equipment for the processing of drilling mud, which is more suitable for the occasions requiring large handling capacity. Solid particles with particle size greater than 76 microns in drilling mud can be separated. Application: large oil rig, large trenchless rig, shield engineering, river dredging engineering, etc.

Drilling fluid linear vibrating screen in the processing of drilling fluid if the phenomenon of running mud?It is understood that this is mainly related to the high solid content in the drilling fluid, mud viscosity, cuttings dispersion and other screening material factors;It is related to the condition of small vibration force, high mesh number and small screen area of drilling fluid vibrating screen.It also has a lot to do with the direction and position of the input buckle of the vibrating screen during the field installation, which can be analyzed step by step from the following points:

1. Regularly check the steering of the motor;

2. Unreasonable mesh number;

3. The formation and mud conditions affect the treatment capacity;

4. Check the amplitude of the shaker;

5. Check whether the distribution of liquid flow on the screen frame is reasonable.