A cementing material converted from drilling mud to replace conventional oilwell cement has been developed and put into field operations. The method offers a new approach to disposing waste mud which often raises environmental issues. The cement material which is a mixture of drilling mud with blast furnace slag and various additives is often less expensive than oilwell cement, because blast furnace slag is a readily available, low-cost, water setting material. Optimum formulation and operation procedures of the slag-mix have been obtained in laboratory tests on different muds with the same additives and under the same conditions. Results show that the slag-mix material can be used on all casings. This cost-saving and non-pollution technology deserves to be put into commercial application in the field.