Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise) I welcome your comments or corrections

on any information stated here, this is a work in progress Please email me photos of any other materials you have, or lend me samples if you have them

BJ Flex Sand (pure sample) appears to be walnut shells with "oily" coating used to plug perfs?

Calcarb (pure sample) Powdered calcium carbonate ?

Calcarb flakes (pure sample) Calcium flakes for lost circ?

Doug Hayden doug@doughayden.ca

Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise)

Calcium flakes (in cuttings)

Carbon (pure sample) weighting material to lighten mud??)

Celophane (pure sample) LCM

Doug Hayden doug@doughayden.ca

Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise)

Chicken Grit (calcium carbonate) (in cuttings,but in abundance)

Concrete (in cuttings)

seen when drilling out of casing setting when dissolved in 10% Hcl stains acid yellow

Fed seal (pure sample) mixture of natural & synthetic fibres looks like sawdust, some plastic??

Doug Hayden doug@doughayden.ca

Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise)

Floor Dry (diatomaceous earth?) (pure sample)

highly absorbant material

G Seal (pure sample) Graphite, lubricant?

Gypsonite (Gipsonite?) (pure sample)

Doug Hayden doug@doughayden.ca

Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise) Mica (pure sample) usually see feldspar/ granitic minerals which are by-products of original source

Nutseal (walnut shells) (pure sample)

Poultry Grit (pure sample) AKA Chicken grit limestone, often fossiliferous

Doug Hayden doug@doughayden.ca

Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise)

Processed Lime (pure sample) powder, usually white or very light colored

Quick Lime (calcium oxide) (in cuttings)

often seen in invert mud wells used to absorb, reduce water content soluable in water, insoluable in petroleum-based solvents (I.e. diesel)

Brick (red) (picked from cuttings)

used as a lag marker in old wells

Doug Hayden doug@doughayden.ca

Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise) Sawdust (picked from cuttings) will look like carbonaceous/ coaly material if overheated/burnt if dryed over heat source

Supercal (pure sample) Calcium carbonate, finer ground

Vinseal (pure sample) please help, not sure of composition or application

Doug Hayden doug@doughayden.ca

Photo Summary of Drilling Mud Additives (photo view at 20x unless noted otherwise) Walnut shells (pure sample) note different colors, textures of interior vs outer part of shell

Weird spongy I seen in 70's vintage well any ideas?

Weird Spongy II as above

Doug Hayden doug@doughayden.ca