Cake:

Terms Related to Cake

• Filter cake

  1. Compacted solid or semisolid material remaining on a filter after pressure filtration of mud with a standard filter press. Thickness of the cake is ...

• Wall cake

  Also called filter cake or mud cake. See filter cake.

• Cake consistency

  The character or state of the drilling mud filter cake. From api rp 13b: notations such as "hard," "soft," "tough," rubbery," and "firm" may be ...

• Filter cake thickness

  A measurement of the solids deposited on filter paper in thirty-seconds of an inch during standard 30-min api filter test. See cake thickness. In certain ...

• Cake thickness

  The thickness of drilling mud filter cake

• Differential sticking

  A condition in which the drill stem becomes stuck against the wall of the wellbore because part of the drill stem (usually the drill collars) ...

• Scratcher

  A device that is fastened to the outside of casing to remove mud cake from the wall of a hole to condition the hole for ...