Drilling Fluids
Sodium and potassium silicate drilling fluids are known throughout the world as the best performing water based drilling fluid. With significant technological advances, improvements in formulating chemistry and a growing number of field successes, silicate drilling fluids now match the overall performance of oil muds, without the associated environmental liabilities. These advances, coupled with lower overall drilling costs, make it easy to understand why silicate based drilling fluids are quickly gaining world wide acceptance.

EcoDrill®, National Silicates' family of sodium and potassium silicates offers the flexibility and versatility to design a mud system for any drilling environment. Drilling fluids, formulated with one of our EcoDrill® products, provide superior well bore stability, exceptional ROP's, and extremely low depletion rates at lower overall costs versus oil based and synthetic muds. Silicate drilling fluids offer excellent runnability, can be recycled and do not pose the environmental health and safety concerns associated with oil muds. Whether an inexpensive muds is required for drilling through moderately reactive shales or a technically superior mud system for the most challenging hole conditions, EcoDrill® offers a costs effective solution with optimal performance.