“Spending an extra ¥50,000 per month on mud purchases, yet frequently halting operations due to insufficient mud” — this is a common headache for many drilling teams. As the “blood” of drilling, mud is often wasted — 15%–20% lost along with cuttings — due to incomplete separation and low recycling efficiency of traditional solids control equipment, increasing material costs and slowing project progress. Black Rhino Industrial, leveraging its high-efficiency solids control solutions, has helped over 200 projects reduce mud loss to below 5%, significantly lowering costs.
The waste problem in traditional equipment stems from “insufficient separation precision + circulation system leaks.” Most traditional solids control equipment relies on a single-stage shale shaker, which only separates cuttings larger than 1 mm. Fine particles remain in the mud, degrading its performance and forcing disposal and replacement. At the same time, poor equipment sealing results in 8%–10% mud leakage during circulation. In one drilling project using traditional equipment, 30 tons of mud were consumed monthly at a cost of ¥120,000, of which 6 tons were lost due to waste and leakage, causing a direct loss of ¥24,000.
Black Rhino Industrial’s high-efficiency solids control solution reduces waste through a “multi-stage purification + sealed circulation” approach. The system features a four-stage purification process:
Shale shaker separates cuttings larger than 5 mm.Desander removes particles sized 0.075–1 mm.
Desilter filters fine particles 0.02–0.075 mm.
Centrifuge handles colloidal particles 0.001–0.02 mm.
With an overall separation precision of 99.2%, the treated mud maintains stable performance, and the number of reuse cycles increases from 3–4 times with traditional equipment to 8–10 times.
Additionally, the system uses a fully sealed circulation pipeline with fluororubber seals, keeping leakage rates below 2%. After switching to the Black Rhino Industrial solution in the previously mentioned drilling project, monthly mud consumption dropped to 18 tons, purchase costs decreased to ¥72,000, and waste and leakage were reduced to 1 ton. This resulted in monthly cost savings of ¥48,000, allowing the equipment upgrade investment to be recovered in less than six months.
The system can also flexibly adjust parameters for different types of mud. For example, oil-based mud is expensive (about ¥8,000 per ton). The system can be equipped with additional mud recovery tanks and dehydration/drying units to recover over 95% of oil from waste mud, further reducing waste. After implementing this customized solution at an oilfield, monthly oil-based mud loss dropped from 3 tons to 0.5 tons, saving ¥20,000 per month.
If your project is also struggling with mud waste, Black Rhino Industrial offers a free on-site evaluation of mud type and loss causes, providing a customized high-efficiency solids control solution. Currently, clients using this solution have achieved an average 60% reduction in mud loss and 35% lower material costs, ensuring that every unit of mud delivers maximum value.
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