Drilling Fluids Testing
Heated rolling that ages a sample the way the hole would.
A fluid that behaves on the bench at room temperature can still fail downhole. The roller oven answers that by sealing the sample into a pressurised cell and rolling it inside a heated chamber for a set period, so the fluid is sheared and held at temperature together rather than one after the other.
After aging the sample is tested again, and the difference between the two sets of readings is the result. Polymer degradation, additive breakdown and settling all show up here, before anything is mixed at volume and pumped. Cell count and temperature range are matched to the work the laboratory actually does.
- What it measures
- How a fluid's properties change after dynamic aging at temperature
- How it works
- Rotating pressurised aging cells inside a heated chamber
- Where it is used
- Mud and completion fluid formulation, additive qualification
Other instruments in this range
All Fann instruments
Model 35 Viscometer
The six speed rotational viscometer the API mud procedure is written around.
Viscometer Model 35 Accessories
The wear parts and the alternative geometries that keep a Model 35 in service.
RheoVADR Rheometer
An automated rheometer for the low shear end, where a fluid either suspends solids or does not.