Drilling Fluids shale shaker

GN Solids Control recently supplied drilling mud solids control equipment to four oil and gas drilling rigs in Indonesia. Each package included a range of essential components such as shale shakers, desanders, desilters, vacuum degassers, mud gas separators, and mud agitators. These equipment packages are designed to ensure efficient and effective solids control during the drilling process.

One of the key components provided by GN Solids Control is the GNZS594 shale shaker. This 4-panel shale shaker features linear motion and adjustable high G force, making it capable of handling a wide range of drilling fluids. It is designed to separate solid particles from the drilling mud, improving the overall drilling efficiency.

The desander, model GNZS752J-2S, is another crucial component of the solids control system. Equipped with two 10-inch desander cones, it efficiently removes sand and other larger particles from the drilling mud. Additionally, it is accompanied by the GNZS752 mini underflow shale shaker, a compact 2-panel shaker that further enhances the solids control process.

To further refine the drilling mud, the GNZS752J-12 desilter nud cleaner is utilized. With twelve 4-inch desilter cones, it effectively removes finer particles from the drilling mud, ensuring its quality and stability. The quantity of desilter cones is designed to match the handling capacity of the desander and shale shaker, providing a comprehensive solids control solution.

The mud gas separator, model GNZYQ-1000A, is a critical component to prevent gas invasion during drilling operations. It efficiently separates gas from the drilling mud, ensuring the safety and stability of the drilling process.

In addition to these components, GN Solids Control also supplied mud agitators to equip the four drilling rigs. These agitators are essential for maintaining the homogeneity of the drilling mud, preventing settling and ensuring optimal performance.

GN Solids Control is known for its high-quality equipment and commitment to providing reliable solutions for the oil and gas industry. The supplied drilling mud solids control equipment is expected to enhance the drilling efficiency and productivity of the rigs in Indonesia, while also ensuring the safety and environmental compliance of the operations.

Recently, GN Solids Control was delivered batch of high-quality solid vacuum pumps and solids control equipment. The equipment was delivered to a drilling company in Asia. These cutting-edge pieces of equipment are designed to enhance the company’s operational efficiency and productivity.

The shipment included some sets of portable mud vacuum pump, as well as a range of advanced solid control equipment, such as solids control shale shaker, centrifdugal pumps, and mud agitators.

The solids and sludge vacuum pumps for this project is portable model with dual functions. It can be used to suck and transfer solids, slurry, liquid, drilling mud and drilling cuttings. And while changing for another set of suction pipeline packages, it can be used a mud vacuum cleaner for oil and gas drilling field to clean the spilled mud on mud tanks. A solid vacuum pump is a powerful pump that is engineered to handle solid particles, separating them from liquids, and transporting them to a designated location.

The shale shaker is linear motion to treat drilling fluids in mud system, to separate particles based on size to ensure efficient processing. The centrifugal pumps are robust pumps designed to transport sand-like particles from one location to another. It is wide used in mud system as feeding pump for desander, desilter, mud cleaner, vacuum degasser, as well as used as suction pump and mixing pump.

The Mud agitators are mixing devices that ensure the uniform distribution of solid particles in liquids, enhancing processing results.

These state-of-the-art devices are integral components of a solids control system, which works cohesively to manage and transport solid particles. GN Solids Control is a reputable manufacturer of solids control equipment, renowned for their superior quality, high performance, and reliability. The delivered equipment will provide the Asian drilling company with a robust solution, enabling them to optimize production processes and reduce costs.

GN Solids Control has earned a trusted reputation as a leading manufacturer specializing in effective solutions for drilling waste management. Among their extensive product range, they offer the high G drying shale shaker, specifically designed for Water-Based Mud (WBM) treatment. This advanced shale shaker is engineered to remove moisture from the drilling mud, resulting in improved performance and reduced waste.

The high G forces generated by the drying shale shaker efficiently separate the solids from the liquid, enabling the recovery of valuable drilling fluids. GN Solids Control’s high G drying shale shaker is a dependable and efficient tool that enhances the quality of WBM and optimizes drilling operations.

To further enhance the processing capabilities of mud, GN Solids Control provides a high-speed centrifuge that works in conjunction with the high G drying shale shaker and Vertical Cuttings Dryer. This centrifuge is utilized to process the liquid mud underflow from the drying shale shaker and Vertical Cuttings Dryer. By subjecting the mud to high centrifugal forces, the centrifuge effectively separates the fine solids from the liquid, ensuring the recovery of clean drilling fluids and minimizing waste.

The combination of the high G drying shale shaker, decanter centrifuge, and Vertical Cuttings Dryer offers a comprehensive solution for WBM treatment. GN Solids Control’s advanced technologies and reliable equipment contribute to improved efficiency, reduced environmental impact, and enhanced drilling operations.

As a reputable manufacturer, GN Solids Control continues to be a trusted partner for companies seeking efficient and reliable solutions for drilling waste management. Their dedication to customer satisfaction, commitment to innovation, and high-quality equipment have positioned them as a leader in the field of solids control and waste management in the drilling industry.

Through their cutting-edge solutions, GN Solids Control empowers companies to effectively manage drilling waste, maximize the recovery of valuable resources, and minimize environmental impact. Their focus on customer needs, continuous innovation, and commitment to delivering high-quality equipment solidify their position as a trusted and preferred provider in the industry.

GN Solids Control has once again delivered a customized set of ViST Electric Vacuum Shale Shakers to a drilling company in China. This particular system features a triple shaker package with the model GNZS595J, it is a 5-panel shaker equipped with 5 composite frame pretension screens.

The ViST Electric Vacuum Shale Shaker stands out as an electric-driven solution, offering enhanced flexibility and versatility compared to air-driven alternatives. Its electric drive enables seamless on-site utilization, providing operators with greater adaptability in various drilling scenarios.

With the GNZS595J model, this triple shale shaker package offers exceptional performance. Its five composite frame pretension screens are designed to efficiently separate solids from drilling mud, ensuring optimal drilling fluid cleanliness and overall operational efficiency.

The ViST Electric Vacuum Shale Shaker’s electric drive system not only enhances its operational flexibility but also contributes to improved reliability and ease of use. By eliminating the need for an air supply, this electric-driven solution simplifies installation and operation, reducing overall maintenance requirements.

GN Solids Control’s commitment to delivering high-quality equipment is evident in the ViST Electric Vacuum Shale Shaker. Its robust construction and advanced features make it a reliable choice for drilling operations in the oil and gas industry. The composite frame pretension shale shaker screens provide excellent durability and longevity, ensuring prolonged service life even in demanding drilling environments.

By selecting the GNZS595J model with its five-panel shaker screen configuration, drilling companies can benefit from increased solids control efficiency and optimized drilling fluid performance. The ViST Electric Vacuum Shale Shaker’s ability to effectively separate solids from the drilling mud helps maintain drilling efficiency, protect downstream equipment, and minimize operational disruptions.

In summary, GN Solids Control’s delivery of the ViST Electric Vacuum Shale Shaker to a Chinese drilling company showcases the company’s commitment to providing tailored solutions for the oil and gas industry. With its electric-driven system, the ViST Shaker offers enhanced flexibility, reliability, and ease of use. Equipped with the GNZS595J model and its five composite frame pretension screens, this equipment ensures efficient solids control and optimal drilling fluid cleanliness, contributing to overall drilling success.

An oil field shale shaker is a vital piece of equipment used in the oil and gas industry during the drilling process. It is a vibrating shaker screen that helps separate drilling cuttings, solids, and other debris from drilling fluids or mud. The shale shaker plays a crucial role in maintaining the drilling fluid’s properties and removing unwanted solids to ensure efficient and safe drilling operations.

The efficiency of an oil field shale shaker depends on several factors, including the shaker screen mesh size, vibration intensity, and the characteristics of the drilling fluid. Proper selection and maintenance of the shaker screens are crucial for achieving effective solids control and maximizing drilling fluid performance.

Overall, the shale shaker is an essential component of the drilling process in the oil and gas industry, helping to remove solids and maintain the quality of drilling fluids, which is vital for efficient and safe drilling operations.

Oil field shaker screens must be stocked indoors for several reasons. Firstly, storing them indoors protects them from exposure to harsh weather conditions such as rain, extreme temperatures, and direct sunlight, which can deteriorate the screens and reduce their effectiveness.

Secondly, indoor storage helps prevent contamination of the screens. Oil field operations involve various types of drilling fluids and chemicals, which can potentially damage the screens if they come into contact with them. Storing the screens indoors minimizes the risk of contamination and ensures their integrity.

Thirdly, indoor storage provides a controlled environment that helps maintain the quality and performance of the screens. Factors such as humidity, dust, and airborne particles can negatively impact the screens’ efficiency and lifespan. By keeping them indoors, these factors can be better regulated, prolonging the screens’ usability and effectiveness.

Overall, storing oil field shaker screens indoors is essential to preserve their quality, protect them from damage, and ensure optimal performance during oil field operations.

The traditional drilling mud solids control equipment includes shale shaker, mud cleaner, desander, desilter, decanter centrifuge, etc…Each of them has a certain cut point (separation point). They are selected and used based on their cut point.

Solids control shale shaker is the basic and pre-separation equipment of drilling mud system. Its cut point is up to the screen opening utilizing on the unit. In order to make sure the accurate and correct separation result, API RP13 complied screens are requested to used in the drilling mud shale shaker. It means all API RP13C screens with the same API size from various screens manufacturers are all interchangeable. They can all reach the same cut point.

But for various screen suppliers, their screen quality and the mud flow rate varies based on the materials and the designations. There are API screens with sizes from PI 10 to API 325, the cut points is from 2mm to 40 microns. The finer the API size, the less the mud flow rate.

Screen shale shaker is the D100 separator. It means 100% particles above the cut point will be removed.

10 inch hydro cyclones are the post popular used in oil and gas drilling for desander. It is also called as desander cone. Its separation point is 47 microns. In some cases, 12 inch hydro cyclones are used for bigger mud handling capacity.

4 inch hydro cyclones are the post popular used in oil and gas drilling for desilter. It is also called as desilter cone. Its separation point is 25 microns. In some cases, 5 inch hydro cyclones are used for bigger mud handling capacity. The smaller size 2inch desilter cone were used in some special drilling waste management situations.

Hydro cyclones are not D100 separator. Hence the underflow shale shaker is suggested to used under the hydro cyclones to further clean the solids discharge from them.

Decanter centrifuge is a high standard and precision separator. Its cut point can up to 2 ~ 5 microns. It is used to reduce the mud weight.

The ViST screen shale shaker is a vacuum screen shale shaker utilizing vacuum power. GN Solids Control specially designed it to treat drilling mud in oil and gas drilling. It is work together to recycle the drilling fluids and reduce the drilling waste.

GN Solids Control started to developing the Vacuum Screen Technology since 2017 and owned many pending patent design on it. With the feedback from different jobsites, GN Solids Control keeps updrading its design to make it mode it more stable, less maitenance, and more user friendly. Through the years’ running, GN Solids Control Vacuum Screen Technology proved to be very efficient for recycling drilling fluids.

Based on GN Solids Control standard shale shaker, there is a catch pan installed under the discharge side of the shaker deck. There is a suction pipe with a rubber hose connected to the bottom of the catch pan for collecting the recycled drilling mud. As the sucktion pipe and rubber hose to the catch pan is short in length, GN Solids Control offers extension suction pipe to connecting the shale shaker to the vacuum unit. After that, there are discharge hose from vacuum unit to mud tanks.

And GN Solids Control screen vacuum unit is driven by air, the will be air hose from air compressor or other air suppliers, and feed air for the vacuum screen unit. The compressed air from air compressor or the rig air supply is required to create suction on the last screen surface, pulling additional fluid off the cuttings. It can reduce the liquid on the cuttings by 30-50%.

There must be a set of catch pan with its suction pipe, suction rubber hose and extension rubber hose for connecting to the vacuum unit. If the vacuum screen unit is connecting to 2 shakers or 3 shakers, there must be 2 packages or 3 packages of catch pan with its hoses. One vacuum screen unit only need a rubber hose with its extend discharge hose to mud tanks. And with an air hose to the air compressor or to the rig air supplier.

GN Solids Control finished a ViST vacuum shale shaker package for a drilling company in China. It is a triple shale shaker vacuum screen package, there are 3 linear motion shale shakers with the vacuum driven unit.
The features and advantages of GN Solids Control screen vacuum unit:

1) The 3 linear motion shale shakers with its vacuum unit are allocated on the same skids. It is for fast installation and easy for shipment and movement.

2) With regarding GN vacuum screen unit, the clients can choose to use a vacuum unit to drive 1 shale shaker, 2 shale shakers, and up to 3 shaler  shaker; Or they can choose to use 1 vacuum unit installed together with the shaker and driven a shaker.

3) The model of the linear motion shale shaker is GNZS594J. It is the latest version with advanced design specially for oil field drilling mud separation.

4) And plus, there are Splash shields on the shaker deck. It can prevent the gas, splashed mud, or heart sent out from shale shaker during drilling activities.

Solids Control shale shaker is the 1rst stage separation equipment in drilling mud system. Desander is the 2nd stage solids control equipment. The desilter is the 3rd solids control equipment. The decanter centrifuge is took as the 4th stage solids control equipment. Besides shale shaker is the necessary and pre-separation equipment which is a much in all mud system, clients can choose other solids control equipment according to the jobsite situation and the job site demands.

GN Solids Control is capable to make full package drilling mud processing equipment. Besides offering different models solids control equipment, GN Solids Control is also make customized full package mud system to suit for clients request. GN Solids Control can offer separation equipment and customzied system for oil and gas drilling, as well as non-oil drilling, like horizontal directional drilling, piling, micro tunneling, pipe jacking, etc…

Solids Control shale shaker is the 1rst stage separation equipment in drilling mud system. GN Solids Control just finished 2 sets of triple shale shaker unit for a drilling company in China.

The features of GN Solids Control triple shale shaker unit:


1. There are 3 shale shakers are mounted on a general skid. It is easy and fast for movement and shipment. And clients are easier to install it at drilling mud system. They only need to move and install the triple shaker one time, but not 3 shakers for 3 times.

2. The 3 shale shaker are connected by pipelines for feeding and discharge. And there are valves on the feeding and discharge pipelines. By open and close the valves, the 3 shale shakers can work together as a full function unit, or work separately based on the job site situation.

3. Unlike other suppliers’ shale shaker, GN Solids Control shale shaker can be equipped with a separate vacuum screen unit. One GN Solids Control brand vacuum unit can be connected to 1 or 3 shakers.

The shale shaker can also be used together with hydro cyclone unit to work as desander or desilter mud cleaner.
10 inch and 12 inch cones are commonly used to separate the particle size of drilling fluid from 44 to 74 μm solid particles. The combination of hydrocyclones below 6 inch is called desilter, which is the third phase solid control equipment in drilling operations. 5 inch and 4 inch cones are commonly used to separate the particle size of drilling fluid from 15 to 44 μm solid particles.

According to the size of the handling capacity required, the customer can select several groups of hydrocyclones to form a desander or desilter.

GN Solids Control desander and desilter mud cleaner is widely used for desanding and separation of oil drilling and horizontal directional drilling.

GN Solids Control makes linear motion or dual motion shale shaker for onshore and offshore drilling rigs. This week, GN Solids Control finished 2 shale shakers for an offshore drilling company.

The 2 shale shakers are the most popular models made by GN Solids Control GNZS594. It is a 4-panel single deck shale shaker. It can either make as linear motion or dual motions while apply various vibrating motors.

GN Solids Control shale shaker is equipped with heady duty design shaker deck. The whole shaker deck of GN Solids Control shale shaker is treated by heat treatment. It enable GN shale shakers to suit for G force up to 7.5 G. If for high G drying shaker model, the G force can up to 8.0G.

The shaker deck of GN shale shaker is sealed with patent design sealing rubbers to avoid fine solids bypass and to protection the shaker deck and shaker screens during vibrating. And the patent design shaker deck sealing rubber is easy for installation and replacement.

Another big advantage of GN Solids Control shale shaker is equipped with mechanical deck angle adjustable device. Operators can adjust shaker deck angle while the the shaker is running. They do not need to stop the shakers. And plus, the shaker deck adjustment device is GN Solids Control patent design technology. It is a Synchronous lifting system, it means the shaker users can change shaker deck at either side of the shaker deck, both side with change with the same angle.

And plus, GN Solids Control is also capable to make other separation equipment for offshore drilling, like mud cleaner, decanter centrifuge, degassers, etc…

Besides shale shaker for drilling rig mud system, GN Solids Control is also capacity to make high capacity dewatering vibrating screen shaker, Classification Vibrating Screen shaker and mining vibrating screen shakers with different capacity. For more details, please contact GN Solids Control system branch: GN Separation.