We now stock a range of drilling fluids - overviews of each can be found below.
For further details and more information on recommended treatments, mixing and applications, physical and chemical properties and more, please contact us.
Ultra-Bore is an ultra high yield, 200-mesh sodium bentonite drilling fluid. It is specially formulated to optimise hole cleaning and maintain borehole integrity in horizontal and high angle drilling applications. When Ultra-Bore is mixed in fresh water it develops an exceptional drilling fluid and lubricant for all types of fresh water mud rotary drilling and pipe jacking applications.
Improves borehole stability in unstable/poorly cemented formations such as sand and gravel. Builds a tight thin filter cake and helps stabilise water sensitive clay and shale. Builds high stable gel strength and generates high low end rheological properties for optimum hole clearning in vertical, horizontal and high angle boreholes.
Concentrated for ultra high yield - reduced product usage. Easy to use and mixed quickly. Non-toxic, stable and non-fermenting. Exceptional rheological properties and fluid loss control minimise the risk of fluid loss. Tolerant of a reasonable level of hardness and low pH.
Ultra-Bore is packaged in 25kg plastic bags (40x25kg bags per shrink wrapped pallet) or in shrink wrapped tonne bags.
Pure-Bore is a natural biodegradable drilling fluid, which can be used in a variety of drilling applications. Produced from dry free flowing polymers, Pure-Bore provides exceptional bore hole stability and cuttings removal in a wide range of ground conditions.
Pure-Bore is packed in 5kg plastic bags (5 x 5kg bags per cardboard case).
Liquimud Plus is a liquid copolymer designed to provide fast and easy drilling fluid viscosity and clay/shale inhibition.
Liquimud Plus can be used to inhibit clay and shale, as well as an additive in bentonite drilling fluids to increase viscosity and lower fluid loss. It may also be used with Pure Bentonite Granules to make a high solids grout.
25 litre plastic pails, 32 pails per pallet. All pallets are stretch-wrapped.
Clear Foam XLTM is an ultra high-yielding, biodegradable, liquid foaming agent for use in dry air rotary drilling or mixed with fresh or salt water for foam rotary drilling.
Drill-Sorb is a granular advanced super-absorbent material that rapidly absorbs and retains large volumes of water from aqueous solutions. Drill-SorbTM can absorb 200 times it weight.
Drill-Sorb is a very effective drilling fluid solidifier (adsorbing the water phase of the drilling fluid) and ideally suited for lost circulation control in highly fractured zones and permeable and porous formations.
25kg plastic bags, 40 bags per pallet. All pallets are stretch wrapped.
A granular product, Well-Clear, is a specially formulated mineral scale remover. Upon dissolution in water, Well-Clear penetrates mineral encrustations converting them into soluble salts which are easily pumped to waste.
Well-Clear cleans casings, screens, gravel packs and water-bearing formations of deposits consisting of mineral scale. Calcium carbonate, iron, and manganese are the most common causes of mineral scale.
Will not emit fumes in dry form and will not irritate the skin. It is safer to handle than hydrochloric or muriatic acid upon dissolution in water, Well-ClearTM penetrates mineral encrustations, converting them to soluble salts which are easily pumped to waste much less corrosive on well materials (screen, pumps) than traditional chemicals such as hydrochloric acid
10kg Plastic bails.
Floc-Block is a solid block of high molecular weight anionic flocculant which be used in a variety of slurry treatment applications.
Effective on the majority of drilled solids.
Place Floc-Block in a string bag and suspend in the flow line prior to the settlement tank so that the slurry water flowing over the Floc-Block picks up the flocculent.
If necessary (depending on the particle charge in the slurry water) use in conjunction with cationic Floc-Block. In this situation separate the Floc-Blocks within the flow line so that the slurry water picks up either the cationic or anionic polymer first (switch them over as required to get the best results).
Floc-Blocks are packaged in cardboard boxes in 5kg clear plastic bas which disintegrate in water.
Cationic Floc-Block is a solid block of high molecular weight cationic flocculant which can be used in a variety of slurry treatment applications.
Effective on the majority of drilled solids.
Place Floc-Block in a string bag and suspend in the flow line prior to the settlement tank so that the slurry water flowing over the Floc-Block picks up the flocculent.
If necessary (depending on the particle charge in the slurry water) use in conjunction with anionic Floc-Block. In this situation separate the Floc-Blocks within the flow line and so that the slurry water picks up either the cationic or anionic polymer first (switch them over as required to get the best results).
Floc-Blocks are packaged in cardboard boxes in 5kg clear plastic bags which disintegrate in water.
Soda ash is the common name for sodium carbonate, which separates calcium into sodium and carbonate ions in solutions.
Soda ash is used to raise the PH of make-up water for bentonite and water based drilling fluids by precipitating the soluble calcium.
25kg plastic bags, 40 bags per pallet. All pallets are stretchwrapped.
Sodium Bicarbonate is the common name for sodium hydrogen carbonate which separates calcium into sodium and bicarbonate ions in solutions.
Sodium Bicarbonate is used to control cement contamination by precipitating the soluble calcium and reducing the pH.
25kg plastic bags, 40 bags per pallet. All pallets are stretchwrapped.
Calcium Hypochlorite is concentrated chlorine and commonly used to kill bacteria eg. in swimming pools.
Add carefully to the waste Pure-Bore drilling fluid to chemically destroy the Pure-Bore polymer and aid waste drilling fluid disposal.
25kg plastic bags, 40 bags per pallet. All pallets are stretch-wrapped.
Citric acid is a concentrated natural acid.
Add carefully to the drilling fluid to help reduce and control the pH.
25kg plastic bags, 40 per pallet. All pallets are stretch wrapped.