Halliburton eRedBook® Mobile vs Mud Engineer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Halliburton eRedBook® Mobile
This app provides essential data and calculators for oil and gas well calculations. Access key dimensions, strengths, and specifications for tubulars to quickly determine volumes and capacities. Supports multiple unit systems for flexible calculations.
- Instant access to pipe dimensions and strengths
- Quickly calculate capacity and annulus volumes
- View volume measurements in Metric or Imperial units
- Calculate total volumes in various units
- Calculate volume per depth
- Copy results with a single click
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Halliburton’s eRedBook® Mobile application is offered as a free download. It is derived from the Halliburton Cementing Tables, the industry-preferred data reference for calculations used in drilling, cementing and/or completing oil and gas wells. eRedBook® Mobile contains volume calculators as well as data from the American Petroleum Institute (API) for Casing, Tubing, Coil Tubing and Drill Pipe. With the Halliburton eRedBook you can: • Have instant access to key dimensions and strengths for pipe, including collapse pressure, inner diameter and weight. • Look up specifications for your most frequently used tubulars to quickly calculate capacity and annulus volumes with just a few taps. • View volume measurements and calculations in Metric or British Imperial units (including custom configurations) represented in character and number format as appropriate. • Calculate total volumes in a large range of units (barrels, cubic feet, gallons, cubic meters, liters and more) • Calculate volume per depth in multiple units (barrels per foot, gallons per foot, liters per meter, and more) • Copy results with a single click. eRedBook® Mobile is simple to use and indispensable for the on the go field engineers, business development, and engineering students.
Mud Engineer
This app provides essential drilling calculations for mud engineers. It helps determine final mud weight, volume adjustments, and the number of sacks needed for various drilling scenarios.
- Final Mud Weight calculation
- Volume calculations
- Sack calculations
- lb/bbl calculation
- Weight Up calculation
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Mud Engineer App – Drilling Fluids Calculator Mud engineers play a crucial role in keeping drilling programs running smoothly. The Mud Engineer App is an essential field tool that gives you 14 drilling-fluid and well-control calculators in one place, built for rig work: fast input, clear step-by-step equations, professional PDF reports, and full offline use. CALCULATORS • Final Mud Weight – mix two fluids and get the resulting weight and volume • Volume – volumes of two fluids needed to build a required volume at a target weight • Reduce Mud Weight – barrels of a lighter fluid (water, seawater, diesel) to dilute the mud • Weight Up – sacks, lb/bbl, total material, volume increase and final volume (barite, CaCO3, hematite) • Hydrostatic Pressure and pressure gradient • Equivalent Circulating Density (ECD) • Annular Velocity • Triplex Pump Output – bbl/stroke, bbl/min and flow rate • Kill Sheet – Kill Mud Weight, ICP and FCP, with safety margin • Bottoms Up – annular volume, strokes and time • Pipe Capacity & Displacement – open-ended and closed-end • Oil/Water Ratio – from retort readings, with oil or water to add to reach a target ratio • Rheology – PV, YP, apparent viscosity, n and K from Fann 600/300 readings • EMW & Pressure Gradient BUILT FOR THE FIELD • Step-by-step worked equation with your own numbers, plus the formula reference • Change units right inside each field – values convert automatically • Quick-value chips: barite, CaCO3, hematite, water, seawater, diesel, sack sizes, pump efficiency • Smart checks catch unit slips (e.g. 35 typed into an SG field) and impossible inputs • Values carry over between calculators: pump output feeds Bottoms Up and Annular Velocity, the new mud weight feeds Hydrostatic, ECD and Kill Sheet WELLS & HISTORY • Manage multiple wells (name, rig, field); each well keeps its own calculations and values • Every calculation is saved automatically in a searchable history, filtered by well, date or calculator • Export history to CSV (Excel) or a combined PDF PROFESSIONAL PDF REPORTS Input and result tables, the worked equation, the reference, the well, your name or company, the date and an app watermark – ready to share. UNITS & SETTINGS • Oilfield and metric units: ppg, SG, g/cm³, kg/m³, pcf, bbl, m³, gal, L, ft, m, in, mm, psi, bar, kPa, gpm, L/min, bbl/min, m³/min • Exact unit conversions • English and Arabic interface • Favorites and search on the home screen • Adjustable decimal places, light or dark theme • Works fully offline – no account, no ads, your data stays on your device Formulas follow standard oilfield references (Lapeyrouse, Formulas and Calculations for Drilling; IWCF kill sheet; API RP 13B) and are verified against published worked examples. Special thanks to Eng. Mahmoud Elbeltagy for contributing to the development of these calculations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Halliburton eRedBook® Mobile at Free against Mud Engineer's $2.99. Halliburton eRedBook® Mobile also leads on rating (3.8 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (32 vs 1). Mud Engineer's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and chart position (#30 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Halliburton eRedBook® Mobile is free to download; Mud Engineer costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Halliburton eRedBook® Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Halliburton eRedBook® Mobile has 32 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Halliburton eRedBook® Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mud Engineer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Halliburton eRedBook® Mobile | Mud Engineer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.8 (32 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 25 months | Every 25 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #30 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Halliburton | bader alshammari |
Customer experience
Halliburton eRedBook® Mobile
Mud Engineer
In-app purchases
Halliburton eRedBook® Mobile
No in-app purchases
Mud Engineer
No in-app purchases
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