Laboratory Development of a Novel, Synthetic Oil-Based Reservoir Drilling and Gravel-Pack Fluid System that Allows Simultaneous Gravel-Packing and Cake-Cleanup in Open-Hole Completions

Proceedings of the International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition in China, IOGCEC

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 41-46

  Price Smith, C ^a   Parlar, M ^a   Kelkar, S ^a   Brady, M ^a   Hoxha, B ^b   Tibbles, R J ^a   Green, T ^b   Foxenberg, B ^b  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^b M I ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; DRILLING FLUIDS; EMULSIONS; HORIZONTAL WELLS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL WELL COMPLETION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PH EFFECTS; RHEOLOGY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; VISCOSITY;

CAKE-CLEANUP; GRAVEL-PACK FLUID SYSTEMS;

OIL WELL DRILLING;

EID: 1242332943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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