Water-based mud (WBM) is an environmentally acceptable drilling fluid. However, it makes
shale to be prone to swelling owing to its interaction with active clays. Shale swelling makes …

Production from unconventional hydrocarbon resources, such as shale gas, shale oil,
deepwater and arctic reservoirs requires advanced drilling and extraction technologies …

Palygorskite (Pal), as a valuable naturally available one-dimensional (1D) nanomaterial,
has received greater attention in both academic and industrial areas. However, the rod …

Recently, the role of carbon nanomaterials has been widely demonstrated in various
industrial applications. Due to their unique chemical, physical, mechanical, and thermal …

Drilling fluids are essential for oil-field drilling operations, which generate lubricating films to
minimize direct contact between moving metal parts and surroundings for reduced friction …

There are impressive efforts in conjunction with improving rheological and filtration
properties of Water-Based Drilling Fluids (WBDFs) employing Nano-Particles (NPs) …

Attapulgite (ATT) has never been used as a barrier additive incorporated into polymers;
instead, it has mostly been applied as a reinforcement or a nucleator. But ATT is very …

As the search of hydrocarbon has moved to the more remote and unconventional areas,
including low temperature offshore and Arctic circle, new challenges have also emerged to …

Nanofibrous clay minerals, specifically palygorskite (Pal) and sepiolite (Sep), have been
becoming a new generation of rheological additives for drilling fluid systems due to their …

This work deals with the synthesis of nano‐sepiolite (NSP) and its evaluations as potential
drilling fluids (DF) additive for improvement of DF rheological properties and filtration loss …