Spotlight on New Technology Awards
Cubility
Booth #5051
MudCube™
MudCube™ is a patented step change system for cleaning of fluids. MudCube rotates a continuous screen belt, and return drilling fluid will always enter into the clean screen. It operates as a processing unit, and gives the fluids and cuttings a milder treatment. No mechanical force is given to the screen. This gives the fluids the best environment to be separated in a closed under-pressurized system.
Drilling fluid enters the rotating screen and the bindings between the solid and the fluid is broken when fluid passes one or more apertures with vacuum beneath the screen. This under pressure will effectively vacuum the fluids through the screen and into a closed-loop fluid system. The vacuum degasses the fluid in the fluid system and the gases are evacuated to a designated area or existing vent line. The solids are transported to the end of the screen-belt path, where it will fall off, and will be a dry mass before leaving the machine, then, the screen is cleaned by air knife.
The MudCube system has been tested in a full scale test loop at StatoilHydro / Cubility test centre.
The MudCube have very low weight, high capacity, wide operation window, very low noise and vibrations, no gas or oil vapor in the working atmosphere.