Overview

In the petroleum industry, barytes provides the main ingredient in "mud" - the mix of chemicals used for drilling. This is because the liquid column in the well must be heavy to balance the underground pressure, and a high specific gravity comes in useful. The weight additive represents 80-90 per cent of total chemical consumption in drilling, and barytes accordingly accounts for the bulk of the compounds which can be discharged to the sea.

Barite heavyweight additive is a barium sulfate material used to weight drilling muds and cement slurries. Typically, 85 to 90% of barite additive will pass through a 325-mesh sieve.

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HOTEN SUPER FINE Features and benefits include:

• Helps increase mud density up to 21 lb/gal (2516 kg/m3)
• Helps control formation pressures
• Helps stabilize the borehole
• Helps prepare solids-laden plugs for well control applications
• The industry standard weighting agent for drilling fluids
• Chemically inert Cost-effective weighting agent

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Barite additive can provide the following benefits:

By increasing slurry density, it helps restrain high formation pressures and improve mud displacement.
It is applicable in deep, high-temperature wells.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not classify barite additive as a hazardous waste