Drilling Industry Glossary

CaCl₂ weight calcium, total hardness cased hole casing casing centralizer casing coupling (collar) casing hanger casing point casing pressure casing shoe casing string casing wear cement cement additive cement bond cement bond survey cementing cementing pump chlorides chlorides whole mud choke choke line circulation sub coarse LCM coiled tubing collapse pressure completion completion fluid concentration conductivity conductor pipe contractor critical rate critical velocity crooked hole crossover sub crude oil cuttings

Calcium Chloride Weight

CaCl₂ wt.(%) = (weight of CaCl₂)/(weight of mud) . CaCl₂ (mg/L) is the amount of CaCl₂ in mg per liter of mud. CaCl₂ brine is a crucial additive in oil and synthetic based mud because of its improvement of wellbore stability in water-sensitive shale zones.

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