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Viscore Drill

Description:

Viscore Drill, a liquid polymer emulsion containing partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide /polyacrylate copolymer, is used primarily as a borehole stabilizer to prevent reactive shale and clay from swelling and sloughing. Viscore Drill is added to low-solids drilling fluids to increase fluid viscosity, and is also used to improve carrying capacity of air/foam injection fluids or low-solids fluids formulated with bentonite

Applications/Functions:

  • Viscore Drill clay-free drilling fluid and Bentonite API drilling mud system are applicable to all types of drilling operations: Water wells, Geo-construction, Diamond coring, Horizontal directional drilling (HDD), Minerals exploration, River crossing, Seismograph shot holes, Blast holes.
  • Stabilize water sensitive formations
  • Improve borehole stability
  • Enhance slurry rheological properties
  • Reduce drill pipe torque and pumping pressure
  • Minimize rod chatter in diamond core drilling
  • Create "stiff-foam" and maintain foam integrity
  • Flocculate non-reactive solids in reserve pit

Advantages:

  • Mixes easily with minimum shear in fresh water
  • Develops viscosity rapidly
  • Rapid settling of cuttings in pit-aids in preventing recirculation of drilled cuttings back into the wellbore
  • Non-fermenting
  • Cost effective - small amounts produce desired results
  • Chemically degradable

Typical Properties:

  • Appearance - Thick, opaque white liquid
  • Density - 8.5 lb/gal (1.02 g/cm3)
  • pH (1 quart per 100 gallons water) - 8.5
  • Flash point, PMCC °F(°C) - >200(>93.3)
  • Thermal stability, °F(°C) - 250(121)

Recommended Treatment:

 

Approximate Amounts of Viscore Drill added to Drilling Fluid System 

Drilling Application/Desired Property

Quarts/100 gal

Pints/bbl

Liters/m³

Added to fresh water (To formulate a clay-free drilling fluid)

·        To stabilize water-sensitive formations

1.0

1.0

2.5

·        To stop rod vibration, reduce torque and pumping pressure

1.5

1.25

3.75

Added to API bentonite drilling mud (25 lb/100 gal) or (30 kg/m³)

·        To improve hole cleaning, increase hole stability and to improve performance properties

1.0

1.0

2.5

Added to injection liquid in air/foam drilling applications

·        To improve foam performance and hole conditions

0.5 - 1.0

0.5 - 1.0

1.3 - 2.5

Notes:

Viscore Drill can be chemically broken down with liquid bleach in regular household concentration (5% sodium hypochlorite). Use one gallon of liquid bleach per 100 gallons (10 liters/m3) of fluid formulated with Viscore Drill.
Do not use perfumed liquid bleach or solid calcium hypochlorite.

Packaging:

Viscore Drill is packaged in 25 kg pails.
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