Saleh, Tawfik A.; Ibrahim, Mukaila A. - In: Energy reports 5 (2019), pp. 1293-1304
Oil and gas have been facing various difficulties in well drilling due to shale hydration and swelling when in physical contact with water. Oil-based muds (OBMs) and synthetic based muds (SBMs) have been shown to have superb effort to address the drilling problems of wellbore instability due to...