Material safety data sheets
What is an MSDS?
The additives used in drilling and fracture stimulation fluids are contained in Material Safety Data Sheets or an MSDS. An MSDS lists these additives or chemicals, a description of them in their purest form along with the potential effects when used in this form, and precautions for the safe handling of them.
These sheets are used by companies to safely manage any risk associated with the use of these substances.
Drilling Fluids MSDS
An MSDS needs to be interpreted properly by putting it in the context or situation in which a particular substance is used. That is, our drilling fluid consists of about 91% water, 4% native solids* and 5% off these additives or chemicals in total.
*Native Solids are suspended solids such as clay, sand, and other rock that are generated from drilled formations and subsequently dispersed into the mud system.
View Drilling Fluids Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
- ANTI-FOAM XLRT SDS (78 KB)
- BARITE SDS (96KB)
- BENTONITE TRUGEL- TRUBOND - MSDS (201KB)
- CALCIUM CARBONATE (All Grades) SDS (96KB)
- CALCIUM CHLORIDE SDS (89KB)
- CAUSTIC SODA SDS (107KB)
- CITRIC ACID SDS (89KB)
- D-D SDS (119KB)
- DEFOAM-A SDS (108KB)
- DRILPLEX HDD_SDS (116KB)
- DUO-FLO HT (102KB)
- DUO-VIS SDS (75KB)
- FLO-PLEX (78KB)
- FLO-TROL SDS (103KB)
- FLOWZAN® SDS (119KB)
- FORM-A-BLOK SDS (117KB)
- GYPSUM SDS (101KB)
- KLA-GARD SDS (102KB)
- KLA-STOP SDS (120KB)
- KWIK-SEAL SDS (35KB)
- LIME SDS (99KB)
- MAXGEL SDS (115KB)
- M-I GEL SDS (120KB)
- M-I-X II SDS (117KB)
- NUT PLUG SDS (121KB)
- OMYACARB (All Grades) SDS (81KB)
- PINE SAWDUST SDS (93KB)
- PLATINUM D-D SDS (111KB)
- PLATINUM FOAM PLUS (111KB)
- PLATINUM PAC (all grades) SDS (99KB)
- PLATINUM ROD EASE (77KB)
- POLYPAC (all grades) SDS (98KB)
- POLY-PLUS RD SDS (113KB)
- POTASSIUM CHLORIDE SDS (83KB)
- RINGFREE (49KB)
- SAFE-CIDE SDS (136KB)
- SAFE-SCAV NA SDS (58KB)
- SODA ASH SDS (120KB)
- SODIUM BICARBONATE SDS (82KB)
- SODIUM CHLORIDE SDS (83KB)
- STARGLIDE SDS (112KB)
- SUPER-SWEEP SDS (597KB)
- TIGER BULLETS SDS (115KB)
Fracture Stimulation
During the hydraulic fracture stimulation process, a fluid called fraccing fluid, or frac fluid, which primarily consists of water and sand (about 99%), is pumped down a well under pressure. Information regarding the sand and small percentage of chemicals used is provided in Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS).
Want to know more about the hydraulic fracture stimulation process? Refer to the Fraccing Fact Sheet.
View Fracture Stimulation Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
- ACETIC ACID 60%
- BC-140C
- BE-9
- BREAKER J218
- BREAKER J481
- CAUSTIC SODA
- CROSSLINKER J604
- CROSSLINKER J610
- DCA-14004
- DCA-17004
- DCA-25005
- ENCAPSULATED BREAKER J479 LT - EB CLEAN
- FE-2
- FORMATION CLEANING SOLUTION M91
- GBW-30 BREAKER
- GELATINE
- GELLING AGENT U28 - 30%
- HYDROCHLORIC ACID
- HYDROCHLORIC ACID SOLUTION >10 - 25%
- HYDROCHLORIC ACID 15% H15
- L071 TEMPORARY CLAY STABILIZER
- LIQUID BREAKER AID J318
- M275 (5 - 10%)
- POTASSIUM CHLORIDE M117
- PROPPANT MAXPROP ISP LD
- PROPPANT MAXPROP LWP G2
- SAND S100
- SIBELCO GRADED SAND AND GRAVEL PRODUCTS
- SURFACTANT F112
- WATER GELLING AGENT J580
- XC207
Chemical Tracers
Chemical tracers (on a scale of parts per million) are added to a small number of wells during the well appraisal stage to track production from each well interval.
- 2,3-DIFLUOROBENZOIC ACID
- 2,4-DIFLUOROBENZOIC ACID
- 2,5-DIFLUOROBENZOIC ACID
- 2,6-DIFLUOROBENZOIC ACID
- 3,4-DIFLUOROBENZOIC ACID
- 3,5-DIFLUOROBENZOIC ACID
- 2-FLUOROBENZOIC ACID
- 3-FLUOROBENZOIC ACID
- 4-FLUOROBENZOIC ACID
- 2,3,4,5-TETRAFLUOROBENZOIC ACID
- 2,3,4-TRIFLUOROBENZOIC ACID
- 2,4,5-TRIFLUOROBENZOIC ACID
- 3,4,5-TRIFLUOROBENZOIC ACID
- 2-(TRIFLUOROMETHYL)BENZOIC ACID
- 3-(TRIFLUOROMETHYL)BENZOIC ACID
- 4-(TRIFLUOROMETHYL)BENZOIC ACID
