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Enhance your Drilling Mud Processes

Achieve total control over your drilling mud processes with Rheonics solutions that work together to give you the visibility you need.

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The Critical Role of Drilling Mud Monitoring

Drilling mud is essential for lubricating, cooling, and stabilizing oil and gas wells. Continuously monitoring mud density and viscosity during the long drilling process is critical to ensure operational safety, efficiency, and optimal performance.

Drilling Mud Monitoring

Common challenges Drilling Mud Management

Drilling mud management is a complex operation, demanding a delicate balance of fluid dynamics, chemistry, and operational logistics. This creates a high-stakes environment where operators face persistent variables to consider.

Mud Management

Both mud density and viscosity must be precisely controlled to meet operational design requirements.

Mud Management

Density must be constantly maintained to apply the correct “mud weight” and pressure on the well walls.

Mud Management

Viscosity needs to be dynamic fluid like while drilling, but solid-like when stopped to hold cuttings in suspension.

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Traditional measurement methods are slow, labor-intensive, and often prone to inaccuracies.

Rheonics SRD sensor

Rheonics SRD

An in-line & real-time density & viscosity meter that provides superior control over drilling fluid properties by delivering continuous, accurate density measurements. This ensures precise Bottom Hole Pressure (BHP) control, preventing mud from entering the production zone and optimizing underbalanced operations.

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Recommended Sensor Configuration for Drilling Mud

Rheonics SRD

Density Range

0.0–4.0 g/cc
0.0–33.4 lb/gal

Density Accuracy

0.001 g/cc
0.008 lb/gal

Reproducibility

Better than 0.1% of reading

Material (Wetted parts)

Stainless steel 316L
Hastelloy C22

Temperature

Pt1000 (DIN EN 60751 class b)

Or you can make your own configuration

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Type of Installations

Rheonics sensors are recommended to be installed either in:

Rheonics Installation Diagram
Suction Line Installation

Suction Line

Recommended installation is to place the sensor in an elbow with the sensing element against the flow direction.

Drilling Mud Tank Installation

Drilling Mud Tank/Vessel

For this kind of installation we reccomend to use the MudSense setup for SRD probes, it simplify immersion and retraction of the probe by the operator for probe cleaning, check or reinstallation in different vessels.

Core Technologies Behind
Drilling Mud Management

Discover more about the technology that makes Mud Control possible.

Rheonics MudSense

3-in-1 Real-Time & In-line Density &
Viscosity Monitor Mud

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Rheonics Mud Sense tech

Reliable Continuous Data

Provides uninterrupted measurements by resisting abrasion and corrosion with a robust, all-metal design.

Enhanced Safety & Control

Real-time density data enables proactive mud control, reducing risk of kicks or lost circulation.

Operational Cost Reduction

Compact, inline design integrates seamlessly into existing rigs for simple, low-cost installation.

Enhances surface logging

Provides real-time density, viscosity, and temperature data to improve surface logging accuracy

Rheonics MudTrack

Real-Time & In-line mud viscosity
and density tracking and control
Software

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Rheonics Mud Sense tech

Efficient operations

Reduces man-hours by 40% by automating routine measurements, freeing crews for critical operations.

Completely Automate

Automatically adjusts mud properties, eliminating human error from manual checks.

Continous Tracking

Improves well stability and reduces the risk of costly drilling issues or non-productive time (NPT).

Data-driven Decisions

Tracks and traces mud property history, enabling advanced analytics for smarter decisions.

What MudSense & MudTrack
Brings to Your Process

By combining the precise, real-time monitoring of MudSense with the intelligent, automated control of MudTrack, Rheonics delivers a new level of drilling mud stability and operational efficiency. Explore the key benefits your operation can achieve

Consistently stable Mud conditions

Prevent operational issues keeping it running smoothly.

Lower operating costs through optimized monitoring and treatment

Consistently stable Mud conditions

Take the first step toward
Drilling Mud process efficiency!

MudSense & MudTrack System

MudSense (Real-Time Data)

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MudTrack (Automated Adjustments)

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Optimized Drilling
Performance Control