Saltwater mud:

Terms Related to Saltwater mud

• Saltwater flow

  An influx of formation salt water into the wellbore

• Salt mud

  1. A drilling mud in which the water has an appreciable amount of salt (usually sodium or calcium chloride) dissolved in it. Also called saltwater ...

• Saltwater clay

  See attapulgite

• Seawater mud

  A special class of saltwater muds in which sea water is used as the fluid phase.

• Salt dome

  A dome that is caused by an intrusion of rock salt into overlying sediments. A piercement salt dome is one that has been pushed up ...

• Salt

  A compound that is formed (along with water) by the reaction of an add with a base. A common salt (table salt) is sodium chloride ...

• Brine

  Water that has large quantity of salt, especially sodium chloride, dissolved in it, salt water.