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Drilling Fluids & Mud Additives

Drilling contractors and mud-engineering companies consume weighting agents, viscosifiers and fluid-loss additives by the truckload on every well, making it a large, recurring, container-scale procurement category. Mud chemistry has to simultaneously control formation pressure, build a sealing filter cake, and stabilize reactive shale, so operators buy the whole additive stack against a density and rheology spec

Updated Jun 2026

Solution Approach

RawSource supplies the base chemicals that go into these programs. We can help with product selection, grade matching, and sourcing from multiple origins for supply security.

Typical Treatment Workflow

System Assessment

Characterize operating conditions — fluid composition, temperature, pressure, flow, and H2S/CO2/water cut — and benchmark current treatment performance.

Chemistry Selection

Match scale and corrosion inhibitors, biocides, or demulsifiers to the operating envelope, factoring compatibility, regulatory constraints, and downstream impacts.

Field Trial & Dosing

Determine treat rates through bottle and field trials, and configure continuous or batch delivery and packaging (drums, totes, ISO tanks) to logistics.

Monitoring & Adjustment

Track corrosion coupon/ER rates, residual inhibitor, and separator and water-quality performance, adjusting chemistry and dose as wells change.

Recommended Chemistries (6)

Barite (drilling-grade barium sulfate)

CAS 7727-43-7

Mineral Fillers & Pigments

Color / Pigmentation

1564 (BARIUM SULFATE) · Class

High-specific-gravity (~4.2) inert weighting agent that raises mud density to balance formation pressure and prevent influx/blowouts; the core mud weight-up material. (source on demand)

Physical Description: Barium sulfate appears as white or yellowish od… Appearance: Fine, heavy powder or polymorphous crystals Odor: Odorless

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