title: Introductory Mud Engineering Handbook
author: Festus Okonkwo
description: A Universalist.With over 28 years experience inthe Oil Industry including the academia.
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  Pål Skalle
  Drilling Fluid Engineering
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  Drilling Fluid Engineering
  6th edition
  © 2015 Pål Skalle & bookboon.com
  ISBN 978-87-403-1139-6
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  Drilling Fluid Engineering
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  Contents
  Contents
  1 
  Introduction 
  8
  1.1 
  Nine distinct mud systems 
  8
  1.2 
  The five main tasks of a drilling fluid 
  10
  1.3 
  About this book 
  11
  2 
   Mud circulation loop and its components 
  12
  2.1 
  The mud loop and solids control 
  12
  2.2 
  The mud pump 
  15
  3 
  Drilling fluid viscosity control 
  18
  3.1 
  Clay chemistry 
  18
  3.2 
  Polymer chemistry 
  23
  3.3 
  Rheology of drilling fluids 
  26
  3.4 
  Filtration control 
  30
  3.5 
  Additives 
  33
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