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Drill-Thin® Thinner
Drill-Thin® Thinner is an environmentally compatible, high-performance, multipurpose mud conditioner for rheology control in water-based muds. It is a modified tannin compound that replaces chrome lignosulfonates. Drill-Thin® Thinner works where other additives fail. Advantages of Drill-Thin® Thinner include:
  • Environmentally compatible
  • Maximum deflocculation and shear strength reduction at low concentrations
  • Soluble in systems of high salinity, high hardness, and at any pH
  • Approximately 4 to 8 times more effective than chrome lignosulfonates, depending on conditions
  • Scavenges oxygen and inhibits corrosion
  • High-temperature rheology control - proven effective in excess of 400ºF (204ºC)
  • Solution pH is 8.5± - no caustic needed to activate
Application Material Needed
Top hole and low solids, semi-dispersed muds .1 to .5 ppb
(.3 to 2 kg/m3)
Supplement lignosulfonate, lignite muds Ratio of 4 lignosulfonate
to 1 Drill-Thin® thinner
Deep, hot drilling where lignosulfonates degrade Ratio of 4 lignite
to 1 Drill-Thin® thinner
Conditioning drilling muds for packer fluids (any density) .5 to 3 ppb
(2 to 9 kg/m3)
for shear strength control
Saturated salt, inhibited or contaminated muds .25 to 3 ppb
(.7 to 9 kg/m3)

 

 Cost

Drill-Thin® Thinner is extremely cost effective. Pound for pound, it is significantly more powerful than chrome lignosulfonate thinners. Total well costs are often lower as a result of fewer mud problems and less rig time. Drill-Thin® Thinner’s high potency results in lower costs for trucking, inventory, and handling.

Mud Types

Most water-based mud formulations

Mixing Requirements

Mix through hopper

Handling

For specific instructions on handling, refer to the MSDS.

Packaging

25-pound, multiwall paper sacks

Before using this product, the user is advised and cautioned to make its own determination and assessment of the safety and suitability of the product for the specific use in question and is further advised against relying on the information contained herein as it may relate to any specific use or application. It is the ultimate responsibility of the user to ensure that the product is suited and the information is applicable to the user’s specific application. Drilling Specialties Company does not make, and expressly disclaims, all warranties, including warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, regardless of whether oral or written, express or implied, or allegedly arising from any usage of any trade or from any course of dealing in connection with the use of the information contained herein or the product itself. The user expressly assumes all risk and liability, whether based in contract, tort or otherwise, in connection with the use of the information contained herein or the product itself. Further, information contained herein is given without reference to any intellectual property issues, as well as federal, state or local laws which may be encountered in the use thereof. Such questions should be investigated by the user.