Services
At Blackstone Drilling Fluids, we don’t just provide the products but the professional expertise one would expect from a company leading the way in the exploration and production business.
An open dialogue is key to a successful operation. Ongoing technical support is an important component of our business and our COR certified professionals will work with our customers on a daily basis to ensure their needs are being met.
Blackstone focuses primarily on the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. We have vast experience drilling most well types including:
- Cardium Horizontals
- SAGD Core Hole, Delineation, Injectors and Producers
- Montney Shale Horizontals
- Turner Valley Foothills Wells
- Bakken Shale
- Nikanassin Vertical and Horizontals
- Horn River Horizontals
- Viking Horizontals
- Eastern Canada offshore in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia
Blackstone is currently running many different drilling fluids systems including:
- Gel Chemical / PHPA
- Low Damage Polymer
- Amine Systems
- Silicate Systems
- Potassium Chloride Polymer
- JET D Fluid (SAGD)
- Oil and Synthetic Based Systems
- Saturated Salt water
- Gypped Gel
- Gel Dispersed
- Mixed Metal Hydroxide
Along with expertise in drilling fluids, Blackstone is an expert at solids control and will provide solutions to enhance the solids removal. This leads to a longer life cycle of the drilling fluids systems. A holistic-approach is key to a successful fluids management plan.
Blackstone Drilling Fluids uses Drillbench [pdf] software to model drilling hydraulics to ensure that the proper fluid parameters are run. The modeling that can take place includes:
- Surge / Swab Analysis
- Hole Cleaning Analysis
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Bit Optimization
- Flow Characteristics