Trends toward rotary steerable directional systems

World Oil

Volumn 218, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 43-47

  Warren, Tommy M ^a,b,c  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^b Amoco Explor Prod Technol Grp   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BITS; EFFICIENCY; MOTORS; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

ROTARY STEERABLE DRILLING SYSTEMS; ROTATING; SLIDING; STEERABLE MOTOR SYSTEMS; WEIGHT ON BIT;

DIRECTIONAL DRILLING;

EID: 0031147266     PISSN: 00438790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (8)

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