The Top 10 Lost Circulation Concerns in Deepwater Drilling

Proceedings of the SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 860-867

  Power, David ^a   Ivan, Catalin D ^a   Brooks, Steve W ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY OF LIQUIDS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COSTS; CROSSLINKING; FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC DRILLS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RHEOLOGY; SEALING (CLOSING);

DEEPWATER DRILLING; FRACTURE GRADIENT;

UNDERWATER DRILLING;

EID: 0346998461     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/81133-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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