We, as mud/fluid engineer types, tend to get a bit on the windy side when discussing how something works. In this article, I want to boil it down to five basic facts and discuss the options available to the drill contractor when they encounter hard-to-deal-with soils.

As a technical sales manager, I get asked with more and more frequency about problems associated with drilling spoils disposal.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away … well, OK, maybe it was in a state not really so far away.