Increased assurance of drill cuttings re-injection - Challenges, recent advances and case studies

Proceedings of the IADC/SPE Asia Pacific Drilling Technology Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 115-122

  Guo, Quanxin ^a   Geehan, Thomas ^a   Ovalle, Adriana ^b  

^a Atlas Wireline Services

^b M I SWACO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; CUTTING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOLOGY; NATURAL GAS;

BATCH INJECTION; CUTTINGS RE-INJECTION (CRI); DRILL CUTTINGS; SUBSURFACE GEOLOGY;

DRILLING;

EID: 11244345219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/87972-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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