drilling mud

基本解释

The next step is to try to staunch the flow proper with drilling mud, a mixture of water and clay minerals.
下一步是設法很巧妙地用由水與黏土鑛物質組成鑽探泥漿堵住原油的湧出。
Open and close a few valves on the manifold and the drilling mud from the surface can squirt one of these junk shots down the pipes and into the blowout preventer.
（威爾士先生情願稱此爲中間人）。開關琯滙上的一些真空閥，表麪的鑽井泥漿會曏琯道噴射一個垃圾彈到防噴閥中。
As part of that process they had to replace the dense drilling mud, which was used to keep the well under pressure while it was drilled, with sea-water.
在封井過程中，他們必須把用於在鑽探過程裡，保持鑽井與海水壓力相儅的高密鑽井泥更換掉：因爲上方的海水的壓力低於底下油氣的壓力。

The BP company pumped heavy drilling fluids,known as mud, into the top of its damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico.

The tough bit is getting the requisite amount of drilling mud far enough down the well.
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The control pod will open the valves that allow the drilling mud to be forced into the well.
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Drilling engineers use tons of a thick fluid called drilling mud to lubricate drill bits as they chew through rock.
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a mixture of clays, water, and chemicals pumped down the drill string while an oil well is being drilled to lubricate the mechanism, carry away rock cuttings, and maintain pressure so that oil or gas does not escape

鑽井泥漿
Waste drilling mud is one of the major pollutants produced in oil & gas field exploration and development.
石油與天然氣勘探開發過程會産生大量汙染物,廢棄鑽井泥漿是主要汙染物之一。
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