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

Table 7

Mud filtration loss results.

Filtrate properties	Diesel OBM	Soybean OBM
Total fluid volume (mL)	27	23
Oil volume (mL)	12	10
Water volume (mL)	15	13
Cake thickness (mm)	2.5	2.0