Drilling Fluids Technology Course

RCC Contracted and Continuing Education offers a five week (175 hours) drilling fluids technology course designed to prepare the student for an entry level position managing drilling fluids in the oil and gas industry.

This course is a non-credit certificate program taught by an experienced drilling fluids technician with over 29 years of experience in the oil and gas industry and over 5 years of experience teaching in the drilling fluids field.

The course is a competency-based program structured around a hands-on classroom/laboratory experience which allows the students to apply what they are learning in the classroom during their laboratory sessions.

Students who successfully complete the class will demonstrate their ability to test, analyze, and treat water and oil based drilling fluids in accordance with American Petroleum Institute (API) standards. Upon successful completion of the course, the student will received a Redlands Community College Certificate of Completion.

In spite of the fact that the oil and gas industry often refers to drilling fluid technicians as "mud engineers" this course does not meet the educational requirements to be a 'licensed professional engineer'. The oil & gas industry does not require a professional engineering license to be employed as a drilling fluids technician or "mud engineer".