Surge loss:

Also called spurt loss.

Terms Related to Surge loss

• Spurt loss

  The initial loss of mud solids by filtration, making formations easier to drill. See filtration loss.

• Spurt loss

  The initial loss of fluids from a mud or frac fluid, before the walk cake can be formed.

• Filter cake

  1. Compacted solid or semisolid material remaining on a filter after pressure filtration of mud with a standard filter press. Thickness of the cake is ...

• Surge valve

  A device employed with a packer to surge, or clean, open perforations; also called surge disk.

• Starch

  A complex carbohydrate sometimes added to drilling fluids to reduce filtration loss.

• Filter cake thickness

  A measurement of the solids deposited on filter paper in thirty-seconds of an inch during standard 30-min api filter test. See cake thickness. In certain ...

• Filter loss

  The amount of fluid that can be delivered through a permeable filter medium after being subjected to a set differential pressure for a set length ...