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Abstract — With the introduction of nanotechnology, energy industries envisage a potential revolutionary change in the field of exploration, development and production. Research by universities into such areas as nanosensors, nanomarkers and nanobots to provide valuable data regarding the reservoir are of great focus due to their large potential return on investment, but have yet to yield substantive products. By contrast, efforts into drilling applications of nanotechnology such as drilling fluids are less known. Nanotechnology can revolutionize the additive properties by tuning particle characteristics to meet certain environmental, operational and technical requirements. Nano-technology produces nanomaterials that are ultra-fines in nature, usually smaller than ordinary micro particles and thus has very high specific surface area with enormous area of interactions