Barite sag: Measurement, modeling, and management

SPE Drilling and Completion

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-30

  Bern, Peter A ^a   Van Oort, Eric ^c   Neustadt, Beatrice ^b   Ebeltoft, Hege ^c   Zurdo, Christian ^c   Zamora, Mario ^c   Slater, Kenneth S ^c  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^b Shell E and P Technology Applications and Research (SEPTAR)   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARITE; BOREHOLES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRILL PIPE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUD LOGGING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RHEOLOGY;

BARITE SAG; STUCK PIPES;

WELL DRILLING;

BARITE; DRILLING FLUID; DRILLING MUD; WELL TECHNOLOGY;

BARITE; DRILLING FLUID; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; WELL TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0034161804     PISSN: 10646671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/62051-PA     Document Type: Conference Paper

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