Drilling Fluids and Mud Additives for Core Drilling

Baroid IDP – Expert Drilling Fluids, Additives, and Solutions

Baroid IDP is a pioneer in the drilling fluids industry, specializing in industrial clay minerals, additives, and tailored services to meet the specific needs of our clients. With expertise in Bentonite and Barite, we provide unique, mineral-based technologies that foster innovation and efficiency across a wide range of drilling applications, including exploration drilling/core drilling.

Our commitment to quality, sustainability, and performance ensures that we deliver top-tier drilling fluid solutions that enhance operations, improve drilling efficiency, and maximize performance. With Baroid IDP, you gain access to advanced drilling fluids and mud additives designed to improve the success and sustainability of your drilling projects.

Baroid Mud Drilling Additives Core Diamond

Baroid IDP specializes in customizing fluids to tackle the unique challenges of mineral drilling worldwide. With expertise spanning North and South America, Asia, and Australia, Baroid IDP is a global leader in drilling fluid solutions for Minerals Exploration, addressing extreme geologic conditions, operator demands, diverse methods, and environmental concerns.

We provide top-of-the-line drilling fluids, combined with a tailored mud school program hosted by Cebo each year. You can find more information regarding the mud school HERE.

Core Drilling Addatives

CORE-LUBE

A natural, linseed-based soft soap is used as a core barrel lubricant on diamond core drills.  

Applications & Functions:

  • Easy sliding of the core into the inner tube

  • Lubrication of the core lifter

  • Minimized wear on the inner tube

  • Formulation of a non-polluting water-based solution for cleaning inner tube components and rig equipment

Advantages:

  • Helps improve core recovery 

  • Helps extend the length of the core run in broken ground

  • Can lengthen the useable life of downhole wireline components 

EZ-MUD

EZ-MUD liquid polymer emulsion contains partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide/polyacrylate (PHPA) copolymer and is used primarily as a borehole stabilizer to prevent reactive shale and clay from swelling and sloughing.
EZ-MUD polymer emulsion is also added to low-solids drilling fluids to increase lubricity, and fluid viscosity, and to improve the carrying capacity of air/foam injection fluids.

Applications & Functions:

  • Stabilize reactive shale and clay formations

  • Improve drilling efficiency in Water Well, Minerals Exploration, Geotechnical, HDD and Construction Applications

  • Enhance slurry rheological properties

  • Alleviate mud rings, bit balling and booting-off in clay formations

  • Reduce drill pipe torque and pumping pressure 

  • Minimize rod chatter core drilling

  • Can be used to create a "stiff-foam" 

  • Flocculate non-reactive solids

Advantages:

  • NSF/ANSI/CAN Standard 60 certified 

  • Mixes easily with minimum shear in fresh water

  • Helps provide effective clay and shale stabilization with lower viscosity

  • Helps impart high degree of lubricity

  • Non-fermenting

  • Breaks down chemically with household bleach (sodium hypochlorite)

EZ Mud Drilling Fluid Mud

EZ-MUD GOLD

EZ-MUD GOLD clay and shale stabilizer provides inhibition of clay and shale formations in water-based drilling fluids without substantially increasing viscosity. EZ-MUD GOLD stabilizer, when added to a QUIK-GEL® or BORE-GEL® slurry, yields an inhibitive drilling fluid system while maintaining manageable and effective fluid properties. EZ-MUD GOLD stabilizer can be mixed easily at minimal shear thereby eliminating the need for liquid emulsions.

Applications & Functions:

  • Enhanced rheological properties of a low-solids drilling mud 

  • Clay and shale stabilization to prevent swelling and/or dispersion

  • Borehole stability in water sensitive formations

  • Minimized rotational torque and circulating pressure

  • Enhancement of air-foam system capabilities 

  • Enhanced core recovery in continuous wireline coring operations  

Advantages:

  • NSF/ANSI/CAN Standard 60 certified 

  • Easy dispersion and mixing with minimal shear

  • Can be used at increased concentrations to gain inhibition without producing excess viscosity

  • No petroleum distillates present

  • Breaks down chemically with bleach (sodium hypochlorite)

  • Compatible with other Baroid drilling fluid additives when added in proper sequence

  • Non-fermenting 

EZ Mud Gold Drilling Fluid Mud

EZ-MUD PLUS

EZ-MUD PLUS liquid polymer emulsion contains partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide/polyacrylate (PHPA) copolymer and is used primarily as a viscosifier and borehole stabilizer to prevent reactive shales and clays from swelling and sloughing. EZ-MUD PLUS is also added to low-solids drilling fluids to increase lubricity and to improve the carrying capacity of air/foam injection fluids.EZ-MUD PLUS polymer emulsion is a high molecular weight version of EZ-MUD polymer emulsion with improved properties.

Applications & Functions:

  • Stabilize reactive shale and clay formations

  • Improve borehole and excavation stability

  • Enhance slurry rheological properties

  • Alleviate mud rings, bit balling and booting-off in clay formations

  • Reduce drill pipe torque and pumping pressure

  • Minimize rod chatter in diamond core drilling

  • Create "stiff-foam" and maintain foam integrity 

  • Flocculate non-reactive solids in reserve pit at low concentrations

Advantages:

  • NSF/ANSI/CAN Standard 60 certified 

  • Liquid form – mixes easily with minimum shear in fresh water

  • Efficient shale/clay stabilizer and viscosifier 

  • Non-fermenting

  • Cost-effective - small amounts produce desired results

  • Breaks down chemically with bleach (sodium hypochlorite)

EZ Mud Plus Fluid Mud

FUSE-IT

FUSE-IT lost circulation material is a fast-acting, synthetic polymer-based lost circulation material designed to help seal off even the most severe loss zones in as little as 30 minutes allowing the operator to return to normal drilling activities.

Applications & Functions:

  • Lost circulation material for vertical and horizontal drilling applications 

  • Suitable for addressing fractured and vugular formations

  • Effective LCM for sand, gravel, and cobble environments

  • Can stabilize unconsolidated formations

Advantages:

  • NSF/ANSI/CAN Standard 60 certified 

  • Rapid reaction upon contact with water

  • Enables quick response to loss of circulation

  • Easy to use

  • Non-fermenting 

  • Temperature tolerant

  • Compatible with other Baroid products

Fuse IT Drilling Fluid Mud

N-SEAL

N-SEAL acid soluble lost circulation material is specially formulated, extrusion-spun mineral fiber. Due to its solubility in weak acids, N-SEAL lost circulation material is easily removed from production zones.

Applications & Functions:

  • N-SEAL lost circulation material can be used as an additive for loss of circulation in concentrations up to 70 lb/100 gallons (86 kg/m3 ). 

Advantages:

  • NSF/ANSI/CAN Standard 60 certified 

  • Acid soluble

  • Can be easily wetted 

  • Inorganic and non-fermenting 

N-Seal Drilling Fluid Mud

PENETROL DRY

PENETROL DRY surfactant is used to assist in counteracting the sticking tendencies of encountered clay or shale during drilling operations.

PENETROL DRY is a free-flowing granular product and is easy to mix. It is effective at low concentrations and produces minimal foaming during high shear mixing. It is compatible with other Baroid drilling fluid additives and NSF/ANSI/CAN Standard 60 certified.

Applications & Functions:

  • Reduces and/or minimizes bit balling 

  • Improves drilling efficiency by preferentially coating the bottom-hole assembly and drill string 

  • Minimizes potential for accretion and agglomeration of cuttings

Advantages:

  • NSF/ANSI/CAN Standard 60 certified 

  • Free-flowing granular product 

  • Easy to mix and readily dispersible 

  • Effective at low concentrations 

  • Minimal to no foaming is produced during high shear mixing or surface agitation 

  • Compatible with other Baroid drilling fluid additives

  • Low aquatic toxicity

Penetrol Dry Drilling Fluid Mud

QUIK-FOAM HP

QUIK-FOAM HP High Performance Foaming Agent is a proprietary blend of surfactants that can be added to fresh, brine, or brackish water for air/foam, air/gel-foam, or mist drilling applications for a superior performing foaming agent.

Applications & Functions:

  • Enhance the rate of cuttings removal 

  • Improve hole-cleaning capability of the airstream 

  • Reduce the sticking tendencies of wet clays, thereby eliminating mud rings and wall packing 

  • Reduce erosion of poorly consolidated formations 

  • Provide a technique for drilling in zones with lost circulation 

  • Reduce air-volume requirement 

  • Suppress dust during air drilling operation

Advantages:

  • NSF/ANSI/CAN Standard 60 certified 

  • High-quality, high-expansion foamer with a consistency similar to shaving foam 

  • High stability with superior retention time 

  • Versatile and compatible with various types of make-up water 

  • Resistant to multiple contaminants 

  • Remains usable at low/freezing temperatures

Quik Foam Drilling Fluid Mud

QUIK-GEL

QUIK-GEL viscosifier is an easy-to-mix, finely ground (200-mesh), premium-grade, high-yielding Wyoming sodium bentonite.

QUIK-GEL viscosifier imparts viscosity, fluid loss control and gelling characteristics to freshwater-based drilling fluids.

Applications & Functions:

  • Mix with fresh water to form a low-solids drilling fluid for general drilling applications 

  • Viscosify water-based drilling fluids 

  • Reduce filtration by forming a thin filter cake with low permeability 

  • Improve hole-cleaning capability of drilling fluids 

  • Mix with foaming agents to make "gel/foam" drilling fluids for air/foam drilling applications

Advantages:

  • NSF/ANSI/CAN Standard 60 certified 

  • Single-sack product and cost-effective 

  • Can provide lubricity for drilling fluids 

  • Can mix easily and quickly reaches maximum viscosity 

  • Can yield more than twice as much mud of the same viscosity as an equal weight of API oilfield grades of bentonite

Quik Gel Drilling Fluid Mud

QUIK-TROL GOLD

QUIK-TROL GOLD, a highly dispersable, polyanionic cellulosic (PAC) polymer, provides ease of mixing and improved filtration control in most water-based drilling fluids. QUIK-TROL GOLD, a highly dispersable polymer, when added to an AQUAGEL®, QUIK-GEL®, or BORE-GEL® slurry, yields a low filtrate drilling fluid system suitable for drilling in water-sensitive formations.

Applications & Functions:

  • Disperses and hydrates effectively at low shear

  • Provides filtration control in water-based drilling fluids

  • Promotes borehole stability in water-sensitive formations

  • Minimizes rotational torque and circulating pressure

  • Improves hole cleaning and core recovery

  • Enhances foam properties to improve cuttings transport in air/foam drilling

Advantages:

  • NSF/ANSI/CAN Standard 60 certified 

  • Effective in fresh, salt, and brackish water-based drilling fluids

  • Non-fermenting

  • Compatible with other Baroid drilling fluid additives

Quik Trol Gold Drilling Fluid Mud

QUIK-TROL GOLD LV

QUIK-TROL GOLD LV highly dispersible, low-viscosity filtration control additive provides filtration control in most water-based drilling fluids without substantially increasing viscosity.

QUIK-TROL GOLD LV filtration control additive, when added to an AQUAGEL, QUIK-GEL, or BORE-GEL slurry, yields a low filtrate drilling fluid system suitable for drilling in water-sensitive formations.

Applications & Functions:

  • Filtration control in fresh or brackish water-based drilling fluids 

  • Borehole stability in water-sensitive formations 

  • Encapsulation of shale to prevent swelling and disintegration 

  • Minimized rod chatter, rotational torque, and circulating pressure 

  • Improved hole cleaning and core recovery 

  • Enhanced foam properties to improve cuttings transport in air/foam drilling

Advantages:

  • NSF/ANSI/CAN Standard 60 certified 

  • Disperses readily at low shear rates 

  • Effective in fresh, salt, and brackish water-based drilling fluids 

  • Tolerant of harsh environments and contaminants 

  • Non-fermenting 

  • Compatible with other Baroid drilling fluid additives

Quik Trol Gold LV Drilling Fluid Mud