Pressure-while-drilling data improve reservoir drilling performance

SPE Drilling and Completion

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-24

  Ward, Chris ^a,c,d,e,f   Andreassen, Espen ^b,g,h  

^a SPE   (United States)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c Sperry Sun   (United States)

^d Arco British and Arco Netherlands   (United Kingdom)

^e Norwegian Operations of Sperry Sun   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g Statoil's Drilling Eng Sector ^*

^h NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC MODELS; OFFSHORE DRILLING; OIL WELL DRILLING EQUIPMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EQUIVALENT CIRCULATING DENSITY (ECD); PRESSURE WHILE DRILLING (PWD) TOOLS;

OIL WELL DRILLING;

DATA; DRILLING; PRESSURE;

DATA; DRILLING; PRESSURE;

EID: 0032030129     PISSN: 10646671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/37588-PA     Document Type: Article

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