Bentonite API 14A Drilling Grade

Bentonite API 14A Drilling Grade

Bentonite soil is most commonly used in drilling oil and gas wells. Bentonite is used as a lubricant for liquids and cooling of drills in order to protect them against wear. Bentonite creates a type of hydrostatic pressure in oil and gas wells that prevents gas penetration. Also, drilling bentonite causes the transfer of drilling waste to the surface of the liquids in the well and facilitates its exit from the well when the cleaning pumps are off. Also, bentonite mud prevents the falling of cut stones into the well shaft by reinforcing the walls of the wells. Bentonite is a flushing liquid, which means that it prevents water from penetrating into the walls of the well. By forming a sludge cake on the walls of the well, bentonite will increase its stability in such a way that the glbentonite particles will swell and harden by penetrating into the rocks and parts of the well wall. Of course, bentonite drilling has specific standards, according to one of these standards, bentonite must be in powder form. Drilling bentonite standards are not uncommon, but they have specific requirements that are known precisely as ECMA and API.