Proven technology To understand the value and ground-breaking nature of Recover’s technology, first you have to understand what drilling waste is – as well as how pervasive drilling waste is. Drilling waste is created every time a new, modern horizontal well is drilled. When an oil and gas company drills a well, pieces of rock are broke up by the drill bit and those need to be carried out of the well. A drilling mud is used to carry the rock particles to surface. Oil based drilling mud is used on nearly every modern oil or gas well drilled today. Oil base mud is mostly diesel fuel – in Canada, it’s known as base oil – and drilling mud provides operators with a number of inherent benefits like that of lubricity, wellbore stability and increased drilling speed. The problem is that every piece of rock that comes out of the well is coated in the drilling fluid. Oil and gas companies then try their best to recover FEBRUARY 2024 Oil Based Drilling Waste
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