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

Table 9

Previous works (Adesina et al. [8, 9]) mud properties.

Mud properties	Diesel oil	Canola oil	Jatropha oil	Algae oil	Moringa oil
Density, lb/gal	8.26	8.47	8.32	7.81	8.30
pH	8.00	9.50	9.00	9.00	9.00
Rheological properties
Plastic viscosity, cP	13.0	12.0	8.0	8.0	11.0
Apparent viscosity, cP	92.5	64.0	77.0	61.0	84.5
Yield point, lb/100 ft^2	155	112	112	106	147
Gel strength, lb/100 ft^2	50/51	60/72	54/55	52/43	52/53
Filtration property
Total fluid volume, mL	6.90	6.00	6.30	6.20	7.20
Oil volume, mL	2.30	1.00	1.10	1.10	2.50
Water volume, mL	4.60	5.00	5.20	5.10	4.70
Cake thickness, mm	1.00	0.90	0.89	0.90	0.90

Source: Adesina et al., 2012 [8, 9].