STANDARD WET METHODS OF TESTING WATER BASED DRILLING FLUIDS

Serial Name of Reagents Technique Calculation

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1 MBC 1. Methylene  Take 1ml of mud to 10 ml of water MBC=
blue. taken in a conical flask. Add 15 ml of ml of methylene blue
2. 3% H2O2 3% H2O2 & 0.5ml of 5(N) H2SO4 added / ml of mud taken.
3.5(N) H2SO4
 Boil the solution gently for 10
minutes. Cool it down and dilute the Equivalent bentonite
solution to 50 ml with distilled water. content
= 14* MBC g/cc
 Add methylene blue to the flask in
0.5 ml increments and swirl it for 30
seconds after each drop. Take a drop
from that flask and place it on filter
paper.

 Carry out the above step until a blue

halo dye appears on the filter paper.
Check the volume of methylene blue
added.

2 salinity 1. Standard  Take 1 ml of filtrate in a conical Salinity in ppm=

AgNO3 flask and dilute it to 20ml. Add 2-3 0.05*58500*vol of
solution. drops of K2CrO4 indicator to it. AgNO3 .
(0.05N).
2. K2CrO4  Add standard AgNO3 solution drop
by drop until the yellow solution
turns brick red. Note the volume of
AgNO3 added.
3 Hardness 1. 0.01(M) Total hardness(ppm)
EDTA Total Hardness determination: = 0.01*1000*V1*100
solution.  Take 1ml of filtrate and add 5ml of
2.EBT and distilled water, 2ml of ammonia
Calcon buffer and EBT indicator. Calcium content
indicator. (ppm)
3.Ammonia  Titrate the above solution with =0.01*40*V2*1000
buffer. 0.01(M) EDTA solution. The end
4.KOH point is reached when the colour
buffer. changes from wine red to blue. Note
down the volume of EDTA
added.(V1).

Calcium content determination:

 Take 1ml of filtrate and add 5ml of
distilled water, 2ml of KOH buffer
and Calcon indicator.

 Titrate the above solution with

0.01(M) EDTA solution. The end
point is reached when the colour
changes from wine red to sky blue.
Note down the volume of EDTA
added.(V2).

(note: if the filtrate colour is black , add 10 ml

of hypochlorite solution at first and boil it for
10 minutes.)