Common Faults and Reasons for Solids Control Equipment

As very crucial equipment in oil drilling and exploration, solids control equipment development trend in recent years is quite steady. Solids control system consists of kinds of units that installed on the surface of the mud tank, or inner room of the mud tank. Accounting from its high rate application frequency, solids control may easily break down and this is hard to prevent. In the following description, this essay will mainly discusses common faults and reasons as well as according solutions to resolve them.

Drilling mud agitator is one kind of unit that would easily break down in the mud processing. Probably reason caused this problem focuses on excessive load of mud agitator and caused non-continuous mud processing. This is because the unsatisfied performance of drilling mud on its density, viscosity and low efficiency power. This also can be caused by the incorrect maintenance and mixing methods. Thus, good operation of the unit is the assurance of high efficiency of the mud agitator.

Sometimes, desander and desilters may stop wording because of the complete block of the cyclone hopper. This is mainly because of the incorrect operation and damage of the shale screen. Or it’s because filtering screens are not installed on the water tap which is used to clean desander and desilter. So when install the tap, do make sure that it is fixed on the correct position and with all spare parts needed.

And mud lost is still a common faults in solids control processing. This may probably because the drilling mud feeding capacity is bigger than what the shale shaker needs, high density and viscosity of the drilling mud, fine mesh of the screen or many other wastes get into the drilling mud. These are all common problems caused drilling mud lost.