GN Solids America has designed a new slurry separation plant for tunnel boring machine drilling mud cleaning.

One of the scariest terms an environmental driller may face is IDW (investigation derived waste): the solid and liquid material generated by the drilling activity.

 Drilling mud—also called drilling fluid—is an essential component of the drilling process. Drilling mud aids in the process of drilling a borehole into the earth. Such holes are drilled for oil and gas extraction, core sampling and a variety of other purposes.  

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