Transport in shales and the design of improved water-based shale drilling fluids

SPE Drilling and Completion

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 137-146

  Van Oort, Eric ^a,d,e,f   Hale, A H ^b,g   Mody, F K ^a,h,i,j   Roy, Sanjit ^c,k,l,m  

^a SPE

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^c Baroid Drilling Fluids Inc ^*

^d Koninklijke Shell E and P Laboratory   (Netherlands)

^e Drilling and Well Technol Dept

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^h Shell Devmt Co Bellaire Res Ctr

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRILLING FLUIDS; SHALE STABILITY;

CLAY; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; DRILLING FLUIDS; FLOW OF WATER; IONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PRESSURE; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CHEMICAL POTENTIAL GRADIENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL GRADIENTS; OIL BASED MUDS; PERMEABILITY MATRIX; SHALE STABILITY; WATER BASED MUDS;

SHALE;

EID: 0030222787     PISSN: 10646671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/28309-PA     Document Type: Article

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