PERFORMAX is a high performance water-based fluid system designed to provide drilling performance comparable to oil-based systems with enhanced environmental compliance.

Application
Wells that require a balance of high performance drilling and environmental compliance.

Solution
The PERFORMAX system takes the total inhibition approach to control problem clays and shale using components that deliver drilling performance similar to emulsion-based systems.

HS&E
PERFORMAX?s low dilution rates, and its ability to reduce waste disposal costs, make it an environmentally compliant option around the world.

Value Added
PERFORMAX provides operators with an environmentally friendly alternative to an oil-based system without compromising performance. PERFORMAX is field proven to reduce drilling costs by providing:

• Rates of penetrations comparable to oil-based systems
• Elimination of waste management costs
• Low dilution rates
• Reduced torque and drag on trips

Differentiating Features
PERFORMAX utilizes three patented technologies designed to provide maximum inhibition in even the most troublesome shale. PERFORMAX is unique in that it uses both mechanical and chemical mechanisms to promote wellbore stability.

Features

• Total inhibition
• Global HS&E compliance
• Ease of use
• Increased penetration rates
• Minimized bit balling & accretion

Benefits

• Wellbore stability
• Low dilution rates
• Reduced environmental risks
• Reduced drilling costs

Advanced System Components
The PERFORMAX system combines membraneforming agents, hydration suppressants, and a polymeric encapsulator to achieve inhibition of shales, clays, and cuttings in a manner similar to emulsion-based systems.

PERFORMAX is designed for use with water salinities ranging from freshwater to saturated monovalent brines. Sodium chloride is typically used to create an osmotic driving force that reduces the water content of shale. The system is also compatible with monovalent salts such as KCl and formate brines.

PERFORMAX achieves shale stability through the combination of MAX-SHIELD™ and MAX-PLEX™, both of which increase the membrane efficiency of shale in a manner similar to emulsion-based fluids.

Clay inhibition is achieved through the use of MAX-GUARD™, a water-soluble clay hydration suppressant. MAX-GUARD prevents clay hydration by limiting the clay?s uptake of water and electro-statically binding the clay mineral lattice. By suppressing clay hydration, the additive also reduces clay plasticity to lower the tendency towards bit balling.

The PENETREX™ additive is a patented blend of environmentally compliant base fluids and surfactants that preferentially wets the surfaces of metals, drilled cuttings and formations. This effectively provides a hydrophobic boundary that prevents cuttings and formation material from adhering to metal surfaces. This reduces accretion, torque and drag, and increases rates of penetration.

The NEW-DRILL™ component encapsulates drilled cuttings and facilitates their removal by the rigs? solids control equipment. This additive works in combination with MAX-GUARD to maintain cuttings integrity and reduce dispersion, decrease dilution rates, and lower mud maintenance costs.