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If the storage capacity is available, to increase the density of the drilling fluid, we simply add
barite to the mud. Therefore, the known and unknown variables in this case are:
Known: V1, 1, B, 2
Unknown: V2, mB
B, V B
1, V1
, V2
Likewise, the total mass of mud and weight material must sum to the desired density-volume
product
Discarded
mud
B, V B
1, V1
, V2
Then the volume of fluid need to discard: V d = Vi V1 ; With Vi is the initial mud volume.
Mass balance
Note that VwB is the volume of water need to add with one pound of barite. V wB = 0.01
For mB pounds of barite, VwB = 0.01 mB.
Mixture density
Thus, 99.47 bbl of mud should be discarded before adding any API barite. The mass of API
barite needed is given by