A Comparative Study of Diesel Oil and Soybean Oil as Oil-Based Drilling Mud

Table 10

Previous works (Paul et al. [11]) mud properties.

Mud properties	Diesel; oil	Jatropha; oil	Groundnut; oil
Density, lb/gal	7.5	8.5	7.9
Plastic viscosity, cP	8.0	15	35
Apparent viscosity, cP	25	55	42.5
Yield point, lb/100 ft^2	32	45	15
Gel strength, lb/100 ft^2	16/15	8/10	4/7

Source: Paul et al., 2014 [11].