Sidetrack drilling allows solving a number of problems, taking into account the geological features of productive horizons. Reducing the cost of equipment and consumables are also advantages of drilling sidetracks. The success of these operations is inextricably linked with the correct choice of the type of drilling fluid, which performs an important technological function, both with drilling the main borehole and maintaining the reservoir properties of deposits. In conditions of potentially unstable clay deposits, highly inhibited drilling fluids with good electrical conductivity should be highly preferred. Improving the quality of penetration by drilling of productive horizons is closely related to the incoming technological information of the drilling parameters, and at the same time, the electrical conductivity of the drilling fluid is one of the key indicators, the determination of which makes it possible to increase the efficiency and improve the technical and economic indicators of drilling. Thus, the measurement of the electrical conductivity of the drilling fluid allows you to effectively select the optimal composition of the process fluid, determine the degree of opening of productive horizons in the drilling process. Keywords: drilling fluid; electrical conductivity; resistance; sidetrack; productive horizon.
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