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Setac
Established The Benchmark For Balanced Alkalinity
We’ve been manufacturing drilling fluid additives
and touting maximum performance coupled with
environmental safety for almost a quarter of a
century.
It was Setac who established the Balanced
Alkalinity concept in the Gulf of Mexico with the
assistance of some highly qualified engineers and an
operator who recognized the importance. It was a
good system then and it’s a better system now. The
current emphasis placed on environmental safety and
elevated drilling cost makes this system more
attractive than ever before.
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The whole idea about drilling an oil & gas well
is to extract the maximum amount of product for the
least amount of cost. The gulf coast is fraught with
problems and water base systems lost favor to
synthetics. These problems include:
1. Gumbo Shale
2. Loss Of Circulation
3. Elevated Bottom Hole Temperatures
4. Heaving shale and Unconsolidated Sand |
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Envirodrill™-Balanced Alkalinity Mud
System
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Oil base drilling fluids work exceptionally well
with these conditions, but environmental safety,
even with synthetic oil, suffers accordingly.
And, the cost for cuttings disposal has become
excessive. Synthetic oil systems still have a place,
but they do not have to be the system of choice and
probably shouldn’t be.
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Normally, water base fluids do not
address these desired requirements
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1. Environmental Safety With Offshore
Discharge
2. Fast Penetration Rates
3. Pipe Sticking Prevention
4. Elevated temperature tolerance
5. Hole Cleaning & Integrity Guarantees
6. Reservoir Performance Improvement
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| Balanced Alkalinity And New
Technology Breathes New Life to a Unique Water-Base
System |
| There are a multitude of new
water-base systems on today’s market. Inorganic
chemistry, silicates, high molecular weight polymers
and the list is endless. But, operators are starting
to discover reservoir impairment with exotic
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In some cases they are plugging and
abandoning expensive holes where hydrocarbons should
have been found. Realization that simplicity with
improvements to an old tried and true system may be
the answer is starting to take hold. |
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The Alternative |
Envirodrill™ coupled with an
innovative concept, and a new line of products to
enhance the system, actually exceeds the
requirements
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Simplicity |
Certain specialty products can
destroy a carefully planned budget and severely
damage a reservoir. Exotic formulations and high
molecular weight polymers are
NOT
required & Diesel or Synthetic oil is
NOT
needed.
However, surfactant chemistry is required, but it
needs to be tailored for the requirement. A
triglyceride ester was found to enhance the basic
system several years ago and continues to play a
part. |
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Balance |
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What does Balance do for me?
Balance is not a new concept. All systems require
balance to a certain extent, but balance becomes
critical when divalent ion chemistry is used for
inhibition. Setac recognized the concept years ago
and realized that balancing the alkalinity allowed
thinners, filtrate loss control agents and even loss
circulation materials to perform dramatically better
than when the system is not balanced. Balance is the
key to a successful well without the use of exotic
chemistry.
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| This unique system
incorporates old technology with innovative
techniques that exceeds the capability of all other
water base drilling fluids and approaches oil base
mud performance. |
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| Maximum performance and
Complete Environmental Safety. |
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| Meaning…you can drill fast
with no hole problems and dump the cuttings off
shore and do it cheaper by using seawater as your
base. |
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Products |
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New and Improved Products complete the
package.
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Boremaster® |
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We modified a previous successful shale control
product to provide better shielding, added a
lubricity agent and designed it to provide vast
improvement to the HT/HP filtrate loss in a divalent
ion fluid. |
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XP-9-1-1 |
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A seepage loss material that works in all fluids
without changing the viscosity |
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Drillfast® |
A triglyceride ester
for lubricity and penetration rate
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Experience |
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The Balanced Alkalinity concept has
been used successfully on and offshore for
several years.
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HIGH ISLAND 340
SHIP SHOAL 154
EAST CAMERON 334
EAST CAMERON 335
EUGENE ISLAND 330
QUARANTINE BAY
SHIP SHOAL 299
WEST LAKE VERRET
EWING BANK 915
SHIP SHOAL 331
SOUTH TIMBALIER 112
SOUTH TIMBALIER 99
SHIP SHOAL 227
WEST CAMERON 101
SOUTH TIMBALIER 69
SOUTH PASS
EUGENE ISLAND 72
EUGENE ISLAND 227
EUGENE ISLAND 239
WEST DELTA 107
SHIP SHOAL 243
WEST CAMERON 592
WEST DELTA 107
ACADIA PARISH
SOUTH TIMBALIER 241
SOUTH PASS 78
MAIN PASS 198
LAFOURCHE PARISH 1
LAFOURCHE PARISH 2
LAFOURCHE PARISH 3 |
WE HAVE IT
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Corporation
We know how to do it
We just need the opportunity
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