Drilling Fluid Additives Oilfield Team
FluidLossControl Additives. Clays, dispersants, and polymers such as starch are widely used as fluidlosscontrol additives. Sodium montmorillonite (bentonite) is the primary fluidlosscontrol additive in most waterbased drilling fluids. The colloidalsized sodiumbentonite particles are very thin and sheetlike or platelike with a large surface area, and they form a compressible filter cake