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barite drilling mud or barium petroleum sulfonate
Barite is a mineral used in various industries, including oil and petrochemical industries, such as deep oil and gas drilling, and one of the differences of this material is its heavyness compared to other non-metallic minerals. Iran, as one of the mineral countries in the world, has good reserves of barite, and due to its proximity to Arab countries that have abundant oil reserves, it has a good market in the region.
The largest consumers of barite consume about 9 million tons of barite per year, which are the United States of America, China, and the Persian Gulf countries, respectively.
Types of barite include:
- Drilling barite
- Crystal
- Lumpy
Barite powder
The types used in drilling mud are provided by the Middle Eastern Chemical Company.
In terms of position, Iran has a high relative advantage compared to other countries with barite reserves in the region, and for this reason, the demand for Iranian barite in the region is also increasing, and the export of barite powder has been increasing in these years. Barite or barium sulfate is a It is an industrial mineral with a specific gravity of about 3.4 to 6.4, which makes it easy to identify it. The name of this mineral is derived from the Greek word "Barys" meaning heavy. Barite is normally white to light gray in color, but may also be blue, brown, or black in color and has a shell to glassy luster. Its typical samples are seen as elongated orthorhombic crystals, but commercial barite is prepared as grains, crystalline masses or fragments.
Pure barite consists of high amounts of barium oxide and sulfur oxide and is rarely found in pure form in nature. This mineral has the properties of phosphorescence and fluorescence, and its crystal structure is broken due to heat. Barite is usually found as a miscellaneous mineral in thermal veins with ores of silver, lead, copper, cobalt, manganese, and antimony, as well as in veins in limestone with calcite or as open masses in clays covering limestones and in sandstones with Copper ores are found and sometimes it is deposited from hot springs.
Barite is a clean, relatively soft, inert and quite cheap mineral with a specific gravity of more than 4 grams per cubic centimeter, which can include 40% of the ingredients in the drilling mud used in deep wells by rotary method. This usage includes 95% of barite consumption. Barite is a vital mineral in the oil and gas drilling industry. According to the statistics of 1980, about 90% of the barite produced in the world is used in drilling mud, because barite is used in drilling mud due to its high specific weight, ease of use during work, chemical neutrality, softness, and reasonable price. is used. The amount of barite consumed per kilometer of drilling is reported to be about 429 tons. This mineral is used to cool and lubricate the drilling drills, the inner lining of the well, the transfer of materials from drilling into the ground, and the control of abnormal pressures in oil and gas wells. It noticeably increases the specific weight of the flower and causes the pebbles to float.
The most common use of barite is for the preparation of drilling mud, because having a high specific weight, medium hardness, chemical neutrality, ease of transportation are among the factors that make barite used as drilling mud. Barite makes up about 40% of the drilling mud, which is a mixture of water, clay and barite, which will vary based on the difference in the local conditions of the reservoir and the proportion of the components of the drilling mud. The specific weight of this flower should be 2.7.
There are two main types of drilling mud, which are:
1- Liquids with water background (W.B.M.S.)
2-Oil-based fluids (OBMC).
In addition, there are also fluids with a background of several compounds (SBMS) that have been reported to be used in some cases. The selection of each of these fluids depends on the geological formations in the well drilled path, the pressure of the formations, the bottom temperature of the pit and the depth of the well. In general, the desired mud is pumped down through the drill pipe, and is poured into the bottom of the well and rises to the surface through the space between the pipe and the wall of the well.
In order to supply this product to large drilling companies, Shimi Sanat Middle East has a high-purity barium petroleum sulfonate supply project on its agenda, which was requested by an Emirati company and in order to increase the productivity of this product in Africa and with the cooperation of the sector. The private and investment of the Emirati company is in the process of obtaining the relevant permits.
MPCI company has the ability to supply barium petroleum sulfonate with high purity.
This company has access to the natural mines of this material in the African continent, where the large global consumers of this material and those interested in investing in the natural exploitation of this mine can access a large source of this material with the cooperation of MPCI.
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