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Definition: Drilling Fluid |
Drilling FluidNoun1. A mixture of clays and chemicals and water; pumped down the drill pipe to lubricate and cool the drilling bit and to to flush out the cuttings and to strengthen the sides of the hole. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Environment | Fluid used to lubricate the bit and convey drill cuttings to the surface with rotary drilling equipment. Usually composed of bentonite slurry or muddy water. Can become contaminated, leading to cross contamination, and may require special disposal. Not used with DP methods. (references) |
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Synonym: Drilling FluidSynonym: drilling mud (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Drilling Fluid |
| Specialty definitions using "drilling fluid": blowing of a well ♦ conventional mud, core driller ♦ degassing equipment, diamond-drill sample ♦ filter cake, fluid column, fluid volume, fluid wash, free circulation, freeze-in ♦ gunning the pits ♦ hollow-rod churn drill ♦ mud cake, mud lining, mud logging, mud sheath, mud wall cake, mudding off ♦ pressure drilling ♦ ROTARY DRILLER, running dry ♦ well driller ♦ zero-zero gel. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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| Language | Translations for "drilling fluid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | borevæske (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush), boreslam (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush), boremuddervæske (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush), boremudder (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | spoeling (brewer'grains, cooling mud, distiller's wash, distilling slops, draff, drilling mud, drilling sludge, flushing, greasy wastes, hog-wash, irrigation, lavage, mud flush, pig swill, pig-wash, scalded fodder, scavenging, still slops, still wash, stillage sludge, stillage(sludge), swill, swillings), boorspoeling (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | porausneste (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush), porausliete (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fluide de forage (drilling mud, drilling sludge), boue de refroidissement (drilling mud, drilling sludge), boue de forage (drilling mud, drilling sludge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dickspülung (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush), Spülschlamm (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush), Bohrspülung (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush), Bohrschlamm (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λάσπη διάτρησης (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fluido di perforazione (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush), fango di perforazione (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush), fango di circolazione (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illingdray uidflay lama de arrefecimento (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush), fluido de sondagem (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush), fluido de perfuração. (various references) lodos refrigerantes (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush), lodos de perforación (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush), fluido de perforación (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) borrhålsvätska (cooling mud, drilling mud, drilling sludge, mud flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-f-g-i-i-i-l-l-l-n-r-u" | |
-5 letters: drilling, fiddling, frilling, fuddling, riddling, ruddling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 69 6C 6C 69 6E 67 46 6C 75 69 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01101001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000110 01101100 01110101 01101001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r i l l i n g   F l u i d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0069 006C 006C 0069 006E 0067 0046 006C 0075 0069 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388475787875807324078877570 |
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