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Reducing Lost Circulation Problem by Using Rice Material

Journal of Engineering


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Title	Reducing Lost Circulation Problem by Using Rice Material

Creator	A.Razzaq, Ayad Abdulhaleem Kzar, Wasan Abdullah

Description	Drilling fluid loss during drilling operation is undesirable, expensive and potentially hazardous problem. Nasiriyah oil field is one of the Iraqi oil field that suffer from lost circulation problem. It is known that Dammam, um-Radoma, Tayarat, Shiranish and Hartha are the detecting layers of loss circulation problem. Different type of loss circulation materials (LCMs) ranging from granular, flakes and fibrous were used previously to treat this problem. This study presents the application of rice as a lost circulation material that used to mitigate and stop the loss problem when partial or total losses occurred. The experimental work included preparing drilling fluid, which is selected to be water based mud. Amount of loss for rock samples was measured where the percentage of losses of drilling mud were 46.25% and 96.96% as well as the percentage of improvement in curing of lost circulation were calculated after rice adding. Rice materials addition was done by tow stages: a) Adding 24 Ib/bbl of fine rice and 1 Ib/bbl of course rice gave improvement in curing from 30.67% to 100%. b) Adding 24 Ib/bbl of fine rice and 6 Ib/bbl of course rice gave an improvement in curing equal to 92.12%.

Publisher	College of Engineering \| University of Baghdad

Date	2016-06-01

Type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article

Format	application/pdf

Identifier	http://joe.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/main/article/view/210

Source	مجلة الهندسة; مجلد 22 عدد 6 (2016): Journal of Engineering (Eng. J.); 149-157 Journal of Engineering; Vol 22 No 6 (2016): Journal of Engineering (Eng. J.); 149-157 2520-3339 1726-4073

Language	eng

Relation	http://joe.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/main/article/view/210/184

Rights	Copyright (c) 2016 Eng. J.