Study Utilization CMC Tamarind Seeds for Filtration Loss and Mud Cake in Drilling Mud Idham Khalid (1),Julastri Mansyah (2), Novrianti (3),Owwen Tri Handoko (4)
1,2,3,4 Universitas Islam Riau
Abstract
Filtration loss and mud cake causes some problems in drilling performance of oil and gas wells. The additive used to overcome filtration loss and mud cake are carboxy methyl cellulose (CMC). This additive is a type of chemical that is quite widely used, so research was carried out to obtain new additive materials, one of which was CMC from tamarind seeds with a polysaccharide content of 50% - 60%. Filtration loss and mud cake experimental test in this research are used filter press tool. The concentration of tamarind seeds are 2 gr, 4 gr, 6 gr, 8 gr and 10 gr. The result show filtration loss values is 10.4 - 7.5 ml/30 minutes and mud cake obtained values ranging from 0.35 - 1.2 mm. The more CMC mass of tamarind seeds is added, the filtrate volume value obtained from filtration loss will decrease because the mud is thickeru Can Edit It Again Later
