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TOP-TROL™
is a pre-coupled Gilsonite™ designed to combat reactive shales, depleted sands and unstable formations. Today operators are drilling their WBM intervals faster and more efficient; however, there are times when conventional sulfonated asphalt products fall short due to their solubility and need to water-wet the formation to work.
Benefits and Packaging
Packaging
Top-Trol™ is packaged in 50 lb PE-lined paper bags, 50 bags per pallet. Each pallet is shrink wrapped.
Benefits
Top-Trol™ possesses a higher degree of solubility over sulfonated asphalt-type materials. Top-Trol mends and holds clay platelets together, lessening shale and cuttings transport disintegration. Top-Trol becomes highly malleable and extrudes into micro-fractures, pore spaces, and bedding planes.
This solution forms a strong, more impermeable repellant film on the wellbore while reducing the effects of erosion from drilling fluids and increasing lubricity as a secondary effect.
Historically Gilsonite® has been cumbersome to deploy in WBM systems as it requires a coupler to emulsify in its natural state. Below are some of the advantages of TOP-TROL™:
- Does not require a coupler to emulsify.
- Possesses a higher degree of insolubility (80%) creating a more impermeable filter cake on the wellbore.
- Becomes extremely malleable and extrudes into micro-fractures, pore spaces and bedding planes.
- Reduces effects of erosion from drilling fluids.
- Decreases filtrate losses to the formation in both WBM and OBM systems.
Historically Gilsonite® has been cumbersome to deploy in WBM systems as it requires a coupler to emulsify in its natural state. Below are some of the advantages of TOP-TROL™:
- Does not require a coupler to emulsify.
- Possesses a higher degree of insolubility (80%) creating a more impermeable filter cake on the wellbore.
- Becomes extremely malleable and extrudes into micro-fractures, pore spaces and bedding planes.
- Reduces effects of erosion from drilling fluids.
- Decreases filtrate losses to the formation in both WBM and OBM systems.
TOP-TROL™ is a total-system-add material that can further reduce reactive shale issues improving trip times and casing runs.
