Wetting Agent

Description

PENETROL, a water miscible, non-ionic wetting agent, is designed to counteract the sticking tendencies of clay.

Applications/Functions

• Reduce or eliminate bit balling
• Reduce surface tension of drilling fluid, which allows faster chip removal without continuously grinding the hard shale formations
• Improve drilling efficiency by preferentially coating the bottom-hole assembly and drill string
• Minimize differential sticking
• Increase bit life and reduce drill pipe and bottom-hole assembly wear

Advantages

• Easy to mix
• Effective in low concentrations
• Compatible with other Baroid drilling fluid additives
• Biodegradable
• NSF/ANSI Standard 60 certified

Recommended Treatment

Added uniformly through entire circulation system

• 1 to 4 quarts of PENETROL per 100 gallons of drilling fluid
• 2.5 to 10 liters of PENETROL per m3 of drilling fluid

As a slug down drill rods to counteract the sticking tendencies of clay

• 1 to 2 quarts of PENETROL per drill rod
• 1 to 2 liters of PENETROL per drill rod

Alternate Application

• Dilute 1 gallon of PENETROL with 10 gallons of water and inject one gallon of mixture per minute into the pump suction
• Dilute 3.8 liters of PENETROL with 38 liters of water and inject 3.8 liters of mixture per minute into the pump suction