News & Insights

White Paper: Progressive Decarbonization of Drilling Fluids Minimizing Chemical Use and Carbon Emissions

Successful Decarbonization of Drilling Fluids by Using Highly Efficient Technology and Reduced Chemical Usage, Logistics, and Casing Sections

AADE Paper: Elimination of Wellbore Instability and Water Influx with Fluid Technology Used in Over 60 Wells in the Bakken

E&P Case Study: Improving Cementing Operations in North Sea Wells

Deploying the right cement spacer technology is critical to the success in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea

Overcoming Difficult Geomechanics in Mexico

Drilling fluids were successfully deployed in an offshore Mexico well that was geologically challenging and prone to wellbore instability.

Wellbore Shielding: A Better Preventative Approach to Lost Circulation Issues

SPE Paper: New Cementing Spacer Technology Cures Total Lost Circulation in an Offshore Exploratory Well

Addressing Wellbore Instability For Safer Operations

Wellbore shielding technology prevents instability problems in Offshore Western Australia

Fluid Solutions Provide Cost-savings in a Market Under Pressure

Impact Fluid Solutions works closely with both operators and service companies.

Wellbore-Shielding Fluid Additive During Drilling, Completions Can Help To Boost Potential Production Rates

Reducing damage, or skin effect, in mechanically weak and structurally complex reservoir geologies is critical to maximizing production and enhancing the net present value of an asset.

AADE Paper: 2020 Emerging Technology – Controlling Flow After Cementing

Uncertainty Mitigation in Well Design

The core of our company is fluid science. New fluid concepts and product development are constantly expanding at Impact.

Cracking a Geological Obstacle Course

Wellbore instability, differential sticking, and lost circulation are significant challenges while drilling build-up sections through stressed shale and formations with varying pore pressures. Conventional drilling fluid systems have not eliminated these drilling challenges in Kuwait and it was necessary to identify a drilling fluid solution.

Wellbore Shielding System Improves Well Integrity

Wellbore shielding technology deposits a shield of optimized material on the inside face of the wellbore to isolate the formation from fluid invasion related to wellbore operations.

Oilfield Charity Helps Energy Workers in Tough Times

“We faced some tough choices, but even in those tough times, we never stopped giving to charities,” Uchytil said.

SPE Paper: Conquering Wellbore Instability in Kuwait

SPE Paper: Successfully Navigating the Narrow Pressure Window in an HPHT Offshore Well

AADE Paper: Wellbore Shielding Spacer System Technology Eases Pressure Gradient Uncertainty in Exploration Wells

OMC Paper: Use of Ultra-Low Fluid Invasion Additive to Improve Wellbore Stability, Strengthen Wellbore, and Eliminate Differential Sticking – Case Histories from Kuwait

Advanced Additive Shields Formation

The technology used by both operators was a preventative “mechanical shield” that creates a temporary low-invasion barrier between the formation and the drilling fluid. The barrier protects the formation and mitigates losses, enabling unstable, mechanically weak shales to be drilled successfully.

SPE Paper: The Application of Chemistry to Manage Wellbore Instability While Drilling the Mechanically Weak Burgan Shale Formation and the Vugular Shuaiba Limestone Formation

Mitigation of Wellbore Instability and Mud Losses in High-Depletion Wells

Wells in the South China Sea are characterized by high depletion and narrow drilling windows which exponentially increase the risk of incurring severe losses.

Cement Spacer Technology Cures Lost Circulation and Improves CBL Results

SPE Paper: Application of a Wellbore Shield Eliminates NPT in South China Sea Wells

SPE Paper: Ultra-Low-Invasion Fluid Technology Increases Operational Window to Enhance Drilling, Reduce Damage in Unstable Venezuela Formations

Reducing Risks in Mexican Formations

"By preventing wellbore instability and preserving wellbore integrity throughout the drilling process, he says, “Impact Fluid Solutions’ advanced additives can help minimize both fluid losses and nonproductive time. This not only provides greater certainty to operators but helps them increase ultimate recoveries.”

AADE Paper: While-Drilling ‘Shield’ Stabilizes Eagle Ford Wells, Eliminates Casing String

AADE Paper: Wellbore Shielding Spacer Improves Cement Bond While Preventing Cement Losses

AADE Paper: Field Results of Ultra-Low Invasion Drilling Fluids

Oilfield Chemistry Paper: New, Environmentally-Friendly, Salt-Free Shale Inhibitors

SPE Paper: A Practical Route to Reduced Wellbore Instability

SPE Paper: Ultra-Low Invasion Fluids a Viable Technical Solution

A New Way to Protect Reservoir Integrity and Maximize Production Capability

Discover how our drilling fluid additives help increase ultimate production by preserving formation permeability.

Wellbore Shielding® vs. Wellbore Strengthening

Learn the proven advantages of our Wellbore Shielding® solutions over traditional wellbore strengthening approaches.

World Oil Innovative Thinker – Rodney Uchytil

Uchytil collaborates with his team of scientists and engineers to develop innovative concepts that can be implemented to reduce NPT, improve wellbore stability and optimize well production.

‘Shielding’ Spacer Prevents Cement-Imperiling Losses

Cement spacers are critical to deliver full annular placement of uncontaminated cement slurries and an effective cement bond. However, in loss-prone reservoirs conventional spacers optimized for hole cleaning are unable to control losses.

An environmentally friendly, high-temperature cement spacer designed to prevent losses while cementing

Introduction to an Environmentally Friendly, High-Temperature Cement Spacer Designed to Prevent Losses While Cementing

SCOOP/STACK: High-Flying Duo Checks All Boxes

At measured depths (MD) of roughly 22,000 ft or more, horizontal SCOOP wells largely target the Springer, an overpressured shale and sandstone conglomerate, or the underlying Woodford. Between the sloughing Springer shale and the fragile sandstones of the Red Fork formation, which overlay the Woodford, operators in the SCOOP and, to a lesser degree, the STACK, have to confront often severe loss circulation issues.

Reservoir ‘Shield’ Counters Absolute Solubility Contention

Impact discusses how our Wellbore Shielding® science challenges the conventional wisdom on additives to reservoir drill-in and completion fluids.

ShaleTech: Eagle Ford/Pearsall Shale: Only the Core Survives Mounting ROR Pressure

In World Oil, BHP Billiton credits Impact Fluid Solutions with helping cut drilling costs by 30% per well in the Eagle Ford

‘Shielding’ Technology Prevents Wellbore Instability Issues

Alternative approach cuts NPT and reduces casing string requirements in weak, depleted horizons.