Drilling Fluids Formulas

“Drilling Fluids Formulas” application furnishes all of the necessary formulas to complete the volume and circulation sections of the API Drilling Mud Report Form. Additional formulas, which may be required to successfully engineer the fluid system, have also been included.

Features:

Pit capacity determination:
- Rectangular tanks with float bottom
- Rectangular tanks with sloping sides
- Circular cylindrical tanks
- Elliptical cylindrical tanks
Open Hole and Casing volume
Pipe Capacity
Annular volume
Pump output
Annular velocity
Bottoms Up
Total system volume
Total Circulating displacement
Hole volume
Hole volume displacement
Weight increase using Barite
Volume increase using Barite
Weight increase using Hematite
Volume increase using Hematite
Weight increase using CaCO3
Volume increase using CaCO3
Weight reduction with freshwater
Weight reduction with oil
Fluid density increase for slugging pipe

The application is very easy to use. Users can scroll down to the calculation and click, then they will see the input cells. Once the input cells are input, click a “Calculate” to figure out the result.