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    Mud has two key advantages over water as a drilling fluid. First, mud is denser than water, allowing it to build higher pressures in boreholes to reduce groundwater flow in and prevent borehole collapse. Second, mud is more viscous and easily returns drill cuttings to the surface.

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    Mud has two key advantages over water as a drilling fluid. First, mud is denser than water, allowing it to build higher pressures in boreholes to reduce groundwater flow in and prevent borehole collapse. Second, mud is more viscous and easily returns drill cuttings to the surface.

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    Mud has two key advantages over water as a drilling fluid. First, mud is denser than water, allowing it to build higher pressures in boreholes to reduce groundwater flow in and prevent borehole collapse. Second, mud is more viscous and easily returns drill cuttings to the surface.

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    Two advantages mud has over water as a drilling fluid.

    The mud is denser than water, so it can build higher pressures in the bore hole, which
    helps reduce groundwater flow into the bore hole and helps prevent collapse of uncased
    zones. Thick drilling mud can create a thin zone of low K materials on the wall of the
    bore hole, which helps limit flow to or from the bore.

    Drilling mud is more viscous than water and returns drill cuttings to the surface more
    easily.

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