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THE PROBLEM

Excessive mud dilution and rising mud cost per well

If dilution factor is climbing, mud spend is climbing with it. The lever is usually solids control efficiency, not a cheaper base fluid.

YOU MIGHT BE SEEING

Symptoms

  • Dilution factor drifting well above 2.0 on active WBM programmes
  • Mud volume built per metre drilled increasing campaign over campaign
  • Whole-mud losses over shaker weirs and cuttings dryer discharges
  • Base fluid consumption climbing on OBM operations
PARAGON'S APPROACH

How we solve it

1

Establish baseline dilution factor and mud built per metre as tracked KPIs.

2

Aggressive solids control tuning — shakers, cyclones, centrifuges — to reduce LGS carry-over.

3

Cuttings dryer and decanter deployment to recover base fluid on OBM operations.

4

Consolidated screen and consumables supply to standardise best-in-class specifications.

FIELD INSIGHT

“A drop in dilution factor from 3.0 to 2.0 typically pays for a full solids control upgrade inside a single campaign. Treat dilution as the KPI the whole crew watches, not a background number in the mud report.”

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Other common problems

High drilled solids in the active mud system

When low-gravity solids build up in the active system, mud properties drift, dilution climbs and rheology becomes hard to maintain — usually a solids control chain issue, not a mud chemistry one.

Poor shale shaker performance

Blinding, screen tears, poor conveyance and whole-mud loss are usually screen selection or deck-angle problems — not shaker problems.

High drilling waste disposal costs

Haulage tonnage and disposal category are the two biggest levers on waste cost. Both respond to correct on-site dewatering and stream segregation — not a cheaper haulier.