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US 8,912,131 B2Granted
Method for sea floor drilling using hagfish slime as drilling fluid additive
AssigneeGregg Drilling & Testing, Inc.
InventorJohn Gregg
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Abstract
A method for drilling formations below the bottom of a body of water include mixing a selected amount of hagfish slime with water and drilling the formations using the slime-water mixture as a circulating drilling fluid.
Claims4
A method for drilling formations, comprising:
- mixing a selected amount of hagfish slime with water;
- and
- drilling the formations using the slime-water mixture as a circulating drilling fluid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.