Drillers need to account for loss to viscosity when dialing in mud flow.

Learn the basics of viscosity testing and how to talk fluently about your drilling fluids.

Columnist walks through products for drilling jobs, start to finish.

If you participate in a mud school, try these tips to get the most out of it.

Soda ash! If you have sat through a mud school, you have heard all about it. Yet drillers can be resistant to use it.

Using the proper drilling fluids can reduce the required horsepower dramatically and reduce the stress on the equipment and the product being installed.

A few years ago, I received a call from a contractor asking for help mitigating a situation with a governmental transport agency in regards to monitoring downhole pressures as they were drilling under a six-lane highway crossing.

The biggest difference between high yield bentonite drilling fluid products and drilling fluid products specifically designed for HDD applications is in gel strength and fluid loss/filtration control.