Q1.

Design recipe of 1 lb-bbl (350 ml) water-based mud with following specifications:
Fluid Density: 12 lbm/gal
Salt: NaCl (140,000 ppm)
Weighting material: Barite (4.2 sg)
Additive details (density & concentration):

Q2. Design recipe of 1 lb-bbl (350 ml) water-based mud with following specifications

You are working as an in-charge of central drilling fluids’ facility. The drilling fluids engineer orders
1500 bbl of 15.0 lbm/gal of water-based mud. How much water and barite are needed to make the mix?

Pointer: Consider a conservative approach for calculation. Ignore the amount of salt and additives
while making estimates of water and barite needed.

Q3. You are a drilling fluid engineer. The current mud you are running is 15.2 lbm/gal and the
circulating fluid volume is 800 bbls. The operator asks you to weigh up the fluid to 17.4 lbm/gal using
20.1 lbm/gal mud in the store. The operator also wants you to keep up the current volume.

How much of 20.1 lbm/gal mud is required to weigh up the circulating system?
How much of the initial 15.2 lbm/gal of mud you would take out before starting the weigh up?