Performance of rubber seed oil as an alternative to diesel in oilbased drilling mud formulation

The formulation of an oil-based mud was made possible with the oil extracted from rubber seeds using the famous soxhlet extraction method. The mud was formulated using the API standard of 25 g of bentonite to 350 mL base fluid. The choice of Rubber oil comes as a result of its flash point and aniline point which lies in the range of base oils used for mud formulation. The rheological properties of the rubber OBM were beyond the scope of the...