MI SWACO

MI SWACO is the global market leader in chemicals and equipment for drilling fluid preparation, treatment and disposal systems.

The company was founded in 1939.

The MI SWACO brand was formed in 2004 by the merger of M-I Drilling Fluids and Swaco Cleaning Equipment. In 2006, with the acquisition of the Canadian company, the range was supplemented with oilfield reagents.

In August 2010 MI Swaco became a part of the company Schlumberger, which had been operating in Russia since 1929.

The head office of MI Swaco is located in Houston, USA. Today, the company has 13,000 employees in 75 countries. The annual turnover is about two billion dollars.

M-I SWACO has been represented in Russia and Central Asia for over 20 years. M-I SWACO in Russia has 23 regional offices, 12 regional warehouses, equipment repair shops, scientific-technical and training centers.

M-I division - drilling fluids, reservoir drill-in fluids, completion fluids.

SWACO division - drilling mud cleaning equipment (shakers, hydrocyclones, centrifuges), downhole pressure control systems. Cuttings and drilling waste disposal systems to prevent environmental contamination: cuttings re-injection, drilling cuttings drying, cuttings collection and isolation system for offshore drilling, thermal phase separation system to recover synthetic or mineral bases of drilling fluids.

M-I Production Chemicals - Oilfield Solutions. Corrosion inhibitors, bactericides, anti-turbulence additives, hydrate inhibitors, demulsifiers, defoamers, wax deposition inhibitors, oxygen and hydrogen sulfide absorbers.

M-I SWACO offers a full range of water-based, hydrocarbon-based, synthetic-based drilling fluids, additives, and engineering services, including proprietary software, field experience databases and laboratory capabilities.

M-I SWACO's advanced real-time software systems can help reduce wellbore complications before conditions lead to bottomhole contamination and HSE issues, resulting in higher costs and disruption. Our software packages can track downhole conditions in real time and, using innovative methods, are the first in the industry to display results in an interactive 3D format showing downhole conditions. These software systems also allow customers to select the optimal mix of colmatants that are optimally sized, providing a host of calculations during operations.

M-I SWACO's well productivity offering includes reagents and services focused on the continuity of the initial formation opening process and the completion and production stages. It is at this stage that reservoir damage can be minimized, unproductive time can be reduced through wellbore cleanup, downhole conditions can be created to improve completion operations, well life can be extended, etc.

The goal of all modern cleanup systems is to reduce overall well costs by effectively removing cuttings while reducing and minimizing drilling fluid losses. Additional objectives include HSE compliance. A key factor in creating the best systems on the market is working with rig designers, contractors, operators and shipbuilders.

M-I SWACO offers an industry-leading portfolio of cost-effective technologies designed to reduce the environmental impact of offshore and onshore drilling operations. Next-generation drilling waste management technologies include vacuum collection systems and fully automated CLEANCUT and CLEANBULK enclosed pneumatic cuttings collection and transport systems for containment, treatment, temporary storage and transport of waste water, and drilling cuttings contaminated with synthetic drilling mud and oil-based drilling fluids. Drilling waste management solutions also include advanced thermal desorption technologies, including the onshore HAMMERMILL desorption unit and its modular offshore version based on a direct mechanical heating process, and the compact thermal phase separation technology THERMICAL PHASE SEPARATION (TPS).

The M-I SWACO Solution Processing System (FPS) is a complete solution for solids control, from shakers to centrifuges to DEGASATOR* units, strategically integrated into one skid-mounted unit. It should also be noted that the solution processing system (FPS*) has a 24-hour service team, supported by a system supervisor and on-duty maintenance engineers.