Product Description
Xanthan Gum is a premium quality biopolymer powder designed to provide maximum solids suspension and hole cleaning in vertical and highly deviated wells as well as horizontal directional drilling applications. Xanthan Gum is a distinctive product and able to produce a thixotropic shear thinning fluid. Xanthan Gum also acts as a very effective mud filtrate viscosifier. Xanthan Gum is a high quality product which meets the API 13A Specification 19 Section.
Advantages:
- Helps disperses easily in fresh water mud, and brines,
- Provides thixotropic properties and non-Newtonian flow characteristics,
- Over a wide salinity range at low concentrations,
- Provides excellent suspension without the need for clays,
- Stable at temperatures up to 250°F / 121°C.Minimizes the potential for formation damage.
Applications: Viscosify fresh water and brine-based fluids used for drilling, milling, under-reaming, and gravel packing operations. Suspend bridging agents and weighting materials in fresh water and brine systems.
Recommended Treatment: Add Xanthan Gum in concentration of 1.0 to 3.0 kg/m³ (0.4 to 1.1 lb/bbl) to drilling fluid. Mix slowly through a jet mixer or sift slowly into the vortex of a high-speed stirrer.
