Oil & Gas drilling additives
Borregaard’s BioDrill® product range consists of innovative high-performance solutions for petroleum drilling applications, meeting the industry’s increasing demand for efficiency, productivity and sustainability.
Borregaard offers sustainable solutions based on renewable bio-based raw materials and unique competence. We utilise biopolymers from wood to produce an extensive line of environmentally friendly performance additives for the Oil & Gas industry.
Read more about our solutions for:
- Cement retarders
- Fluid loss control agents
- Mud thinners
- H2S Scavengers
- Viscosifiers & suspending agents
All BioDrill products are based on environmentally friendly biopolymers, most of which are on the OSPAR List of Substances Used and Discharged Offshore and considered to Pose Little or No Risk to the Marine Environment (PLONOR list).
Oil & gas drilling products and solutions
Cement retarders
Designed to perform across a broad range of temperatures and conditions, our plonor-approved cement retarders are made from lignin, a sustainable biopolymer.
Fluid loss control agents
Our fluid loss control additives function at temperatures up to 200°c (400°f) to control fluid migration in difficult drilling situations.
Mud thinners
Our chrome-free drilling mud thinners function well at bottom hole temperatures up to 120°c (248°f). they are made from lignin, a sustainable biopolymer.
H2s scavengers
The biodrill® greenscav technology combines metal salts with lignin-based chelating agents to provide completely soluble h2s scavengers for use in most brine and freshwater drilling fluid systems.
Viscosifier & suspending agent
Biodrill rx is a rheological modifier that utilises its entanglement of cellulose fibrils to improve anti-sedimentation of proppant, fines, cuttings, produced solids in oil recovery and drilling fluids, along with anti-settling of particles in cement slurries. biodrill rx retains its anti-sedimentation properties while maintaining its shear thinning ability (pseudoplasticity) in harsh downhole environments, as opposed to typical hydrocolloids (hec, xanthan, cmc, and guar). biodrill rx performs well at high water cuts, in high tds brines, and under extreme ph conditions (1–13). the unique physical properties of biodrill rx allow for suspension of solids at static or near resting conditions, and superior shear-thinning ability at high shear rates. this allows fluids to be easily pumpable, manageable, and requires less strain on the surface equipment the biodrill rx product is bio-based, renewable, sustainable, biodegradable, non-toxic, and considered to pose little or no risk to the environment (plonor certified).
Sustainability in oil and gas
The plonor list
Substances considered to pose little or no risk to the environment.
Sustainability in the oil & gas industry
With the oil & gas drilling industry moving into more sensitive areas, environmentally friendly and sustainable drilling chemicals is more important than ever.
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