Project Description

Oil Laboratory needed for lubricant testing some of our most commonly used lubricant additives in brine base drilling fluids. The lubricants consist of various blends of esters, glycols, fatty acids, hydrocarbon (diesel) and emulsifiers. The purpose is to determine which lubricant performs the best at reducing the coefficient of friction between metal to metal and metal to formation and the optimal concentrations of each. At the same time, and perhaps more importantly, I would like to evaluate what kind of contaminants and at what concentrations cause "greasing" effects. I would also like to look at miscibility or emulsion of the lubricant in a brine solution and the role this plays on lubricity. Lastly, how do the lubricants hold up when examining formation damage/permeability reduction and to what extent this damage is increased when lubricants eventually grease out.