In this paper, facing to the requirements of environment protection, based on the analysis of the environmentally friendly drilling fluid agents often used, a novel environmentally friendly drilling fluid system is developed with the main weak gel agent of GEL-ZL, which is stable at 160℃.The experimental results show that the environmentally friendly drilling fluid system has good performances of inhibition and reservoir protection after rolled at 160℃, the permeability recovery rate is as high as 90.0%.