Method for sea floor drilling using hagfish slime as drilling fluid additive
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.
1. 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.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the mixture comprises between one part slime to ten parts water and one part slime to twenty parts water.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the drilling of formations using the slime-water mixture comprises drilling formations below the bottom of a body of water.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the water in the mixing of the hagfish slime is from the body of water.