Digital Drilling

Drilling mud is the blood of the well Think of a drilling well as a living body. The mud pumps are the heart. The wellbore is the circulatory path. The drill string and annulus are the arteries and veins. And drilling mud — the fluid that circulates continuously from surface to bit and back again — is the blood. Like blood, mud does more than move. It carries hydraulic energy to the bit, transports drilled cuttings back to surface, cools and lubricates the bottom-hole assembl