Trend of DKD mud technique

Dear Colleagues, 

I understand utilization of Dynamic Kill Drilling (DKD) mud technique has become more and more common in deepwater explorations lately because it seems to be very difficult to eliminate a lot of uncertainties in exploration wells, particularly shallow gas risk. 

However, in case that the risk of shallow gas is found to be reasonably low by shallow gas analysis or somehow, is it still common to use conventional seawater gel mud system with some amount of weighted mud even in deepwater exploration wells? Or is DKD mud technique almost the default for deepwater exploration wells? 

Have you had any experience of drilling deepwater exploration wells with conventional / traditional way (seawater gel mud with kill mud) lately?

I'd like to know international industry trend in drilling fluid system for riserless section in deepwater exploration wells.

Regards,

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