Merits of suspending the first platform well as a cuttings injector

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn , Issue A, 2000, Pages 467-476

  Kunze, Kenneth R ^a   Skorve, Helge ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEEP WELL DISPOSAL; DRAINAGE; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); OIL WELL CASINGS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

FLUID CUTTINGS;

OIL WELL DRILLING;

EID: 0034589229     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/63124-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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