Water-base mud:

In water-gas muds, any additives are dispersed in the water.

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Terms Related to Water-base mud

• Oil-emulsion mud

  A water-base mud in which water is the continuous phase and oil is the dispersed phase. The oil is spread out, or dispersed, in the ...

• Emulsion

  A mixture in which one liquid, termed the dispersed phase, is uniformly distributed (usually as minute globules) in another liquid, called the continuous phase or ...

• Oil-base mud

  A drilling or workover fluid in which oil is the continuous phase and which contains from less than 2 percent and up to 5 percent ...

• Oil mud

  A drilling mud, e.g., oil-base mud and invertemulsion mud, in which oil is the continuous phase. It is useful in drilling certain formation that may ...

• Nonconductive mud

  Any drilling fluid, usually oil-base or invert-emulsion muds, the continuous phase of which does not conduct electricity, e.g., oil.

• Emulsifying agent

  A material that causes water and oil to form an emulsion. Water normally occurs separately from oil; if, however, an emulsifying agent is present, the ...

• Oil-in-water emulsion mud

  Any conventional or special water-base mud to which oil has been added. The oil becomes the dispersed phase and may be emulsified into the mud ...