DRILLING CHEMICALS
Drilling Chemicals, also known as drilling fluid additives, are essential in oil, gas, and geothermal drilling. They enhance drilling fluid performance by maintaining wellbore stability, controlling formation pressures, and minimizing formation damage. Drilling Chemicals Series offered by HB Laboratories are formulated with environmentally responsible ingredients, including biodegradable additives and low-toxicity components designed to reduce environmental impact and support sustainable drilling practices. Contact us to learn more about our Drilling Chemicals Series tailored to optimize both operational efficiency and ecological stewardship.
Barite, iron oxides, calcium carbonates and similar products possessing high specific gravity are used to control formation pressures, check formation caving and facilitate pulling dry pipe. HB Laboratories offers industrial recognized weighting agents.
Bentonite, attapulgite clays and polymers are used to increase viscosity for better hole cleaning and suspension of solids. Meanwhile, salt, hydrated lime, gypsum, synthetic polymers and guar gum are often used as flocculants. HB Laboratories offers industrial recognized viscosifiers and flocculants.
The primary function of a lost circulation additive is to plug the zone of loss back in the formation away from the borehole face so that subsequent operations will not result in additional drilling fluids loss. HB Laboratories offers basic lost circulation materials.
These products are used to prevent excessive wellbore enlargement and heaving or caving while drilling water-sensitive shales by reducing shale hydration. HB Laboratories offers a variety of industrial recognized shale stabilizers.
Filtrate or fluid loss reducers serve to decrease fluid loss, a measure of the tendency of the liquid phase of the drilling fluid to pass through the filter cake into the formation. HB Laboratories offers industrial recognized fluid loss control additives.
Lubricants are designed to reduce the coefficient of friction of drilling fluid which decreases torque and drag. Pipe-freeing agents consisting of detergents, soaps, oils, surfactants and other chemicals, these agents are intended to be spotted in an area of suspected pipe stickage to reduce friction and increase lubricity, thereby freeing the stuck pipe. HB Laboratories offers different types of lubricant and specialty additives for drilling purposes.
These products create a heterogeneous mixture (emulsion) of two insoluble liquids. These include fatty acids and amine-based chemicals for oil-based muds and detergents, soaps, organic acids and water-based surfactants for water-based muds. Products may be anionic (negatively charged), non-ionic (neutral) or cationic (positively charged) chemicals depending on the application. HB Laboratories offers industrial recognized oil-based mud additives.
pH control along with an appropriate corrosion inhibitor are used to control corrosion, neutralize hazardous acid gases and prevent scale in drilling fluids. Common corrosion inhibitors are amine- or phosphate-based products, as well as other specially formulated chemicals. Biocides are used to prevent bacterial degradation of natural organic additives. HB Laboratories offers various types of well protection chemicals.
These chemicals modify the relationship between viscosity and percentage of solids in a drilling mud, and may be used, further, to reduce gel strength, increase a fluid’s pump ability. The principal purpose of a thinner is to function as a deflocculant to reduce flocculation of clay particles which causes high viscosity and gel strengths. HB Laboratories offers a wide variety of dispersants and deflocculants.
Foam agents are, most often, chemicals that also act as surfactants (surface active agents) to foam in the presence of water. These foamers permit air or gas drilling through water-bearing formations. Defoamers are designed to reduce foaming action, particularly in brackish and saturated saltwater mud. HB Laboratories offers an extensive range of foam agents and defoamers for drilling applications.
Products for well cementing applications. This includes high sulfur resistance and high temperature stable, Class G cement, and full range of additives. HB Laboratories offers basic cement additives.
Products used to control the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a fluid includes lube, caustic soda, soda ash and bicarbonate of soda, as well as other common acids and bases. Salts are used to make mud systems with properties as required. HB Laboratories offers an extensive range of commercial chemicals that are commonly utilized for drilling purposes.