New Analyses Methods to Improve the Understanding of Shale Hydration and Dispersion in Drilling Fluids
This thesis details novel analysis methods that were applied to investigate shale and clay mineral reactivity as they come in contact with water-based drilling fluids. Six commercial additives were tested and their shale stabilizing potential was investigated through the use of two advanced particle...
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Curtin University
2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75348 |
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| author | Elango, Prabhu |
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| description | This thesis details novel analysis methods that were applied to investigate shale and clay mineral reactivity as they come in contact with water-based drilling fluids. Six commercial additives were tested and their shale stabilizing potential was investigated through the use of two advanced particle analyzers – FBRM M500 and Malvern Mastersizer 3000. The experimental study and subsequent results indicate that these novel tools can indeed be used to analyze shale hydration and dispersion through particle analysis. |
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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
| institution_category | Local University |
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| publishDate | 2018 |
| publisher | Curtin University |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-753482019-05-20T06:10:11Z New Analyses Methods to Improve the Understanding of Shale Hydration and Dispersion in Drilling Fluids Elango, Prabhu This thesis details novel analysis methods that were applied to investigate shale and clay mineral reactivity as they come in contact with water-based drilling fluids. Six commercial additives were tested and their shale stabilizing potential was investigated through the use of two advanced particle analyzers – FBRM M500 and Malvern Mastersizer 3000. The experimental study and subsequent results indicate that these novel tools can indeed be used to analyze shale hydration and dispersion through particle analysis. 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75348 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Elango, Prabhu New Analyses Methods to Improve the Understanding of Shale Hydration and Dispersion in Drilling Fluids |
| title | New Analyses Methods to Improve the Understanding of Shale Hydration and Dispersion in Drilling Fluids |
| title_full | New Analyses Methods to Improve the Understanding of Shale Hydration and Dispersion in Drilling Fluids |
| title_fullStr | New Analyses Methods to Improve the Understanding of Shale Hydration and Dispersion in Drilling Fluids |
| title_full_unstemmed | New Analyses Methods to Improve the Understanding of Shale Hydration and Dispersion in Drilling Fluids |
| title_short | New Analyses Methods to Improve the Understanding of Shale Hydration and Dispersion in Drilling Fluids |
| title_sort | new analyses methods to improve the understanding of shale hydration and dispersion in drilling fluids |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75348 |