MUDSIM-ECO – Simulation of drilling fluid’s impact on the environment in drilling operations
Many, and sometimes confusing, requirements for drilling operations makes it complicated to map environmental consequences for different types of drilling fluid.
MUDSIM-ECO, a cloud-based planning and simulation tool, provide the industry with documentation of the drilling mud’s effect on the environment, and relates environment effects to other important drilling properties. MudSim-Eco is well suited for companies that work with sustainability and the environment that want to:
- Estimate waste, cuttings and waste water
- Estimate waste from lost circulation
- Circular Economy; Reuse of drilling fluid
- Calculate carbon footprint
- Simplify application and reporting to authorities
- Carry out and document impact assessments in accordance with government requirements for continuous development of more environmentally friendly drilling fluids.
MUDSIM-ECO simulates the consequences for different drilling fluids, compare them and report how the various drilling fluids impact important drilling mud decision parameters, such as:
- Environmental effect from the drilling fluid
- Equivalent Circular Density (ECD)
- Hole cleaning
- Rate of penetration (ROP)
- Drilling fluid consumption
- Handling of cuttings
- Lost circulation
- Hole stability
