ULTRADRIL - The water-base system that helps you achieve your drilling and environmental goals through an exclusive, triple-inhibition approach

The system that helps you control drilling waste management and environmental costs

As reports come in from around the world, the ULTRADRIL system is delivering impressive drilling waste management benefits. Its highly inhibitive chemistry results in dilution rates that are even much lower than other water-base systems, lower waste volumes and the ability to recycle the used fluid. Because it is a water-base system, the ULTRADRIL system requires less equipment, manpower and the secondary processing that are all common to invert system drilling.

The system’s water-base formulation gives it two strong advantages over oil-base systems. It can be safely discharged both on land and offshore.

This makes it an economical alternative to premium synthetic systems for deep and ultra-deepwater projects, especially where there is the possibility of lost circulation.

Applications

Deepwater and other offshore and onshore projects in environmentally sensitive areas characterized by highly reactive shales.

Problems

Drilling in highly reactive shales calls for a high-performance fluid with excellent inhibition characteristics. Reducing drilling waste management costs, as well as complying with environmental regulations, virtually dictate the use of a water-base fluid.

Solutions

The water-base ULTRADRIL* system inhibits highly reactive shales and stabilizes wellbores while promoting hole cleaning and reducing clay/gumbo accretion and bit balling.

Economics

The system’s ability to promote well-bore stability, high Rates of Penetration (ROP) and excellent hole cleaning saves valuable rig time. Its lower dilution requirements, lower waste volumes and recyclability, even after drilling long intervals of highly reactive formations, significantly reduce drilling waste management and fluid costs.

Environmental

The excellent drilling waste management characteristics of the system - less dilution, lower waste volumes and excellent recyclability - as well as its water-base formulation, make the system environmentally acceptable in virtually any drilling area.