Innovative Drilling Fluid Design and Rigorous Pre-Well Planning Enable Success in an Extreme HTHP Well

Proceedings of the IADC/SPE Asia Pacific Drilling Technology Conference, APDT

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 55-63

  Oakley, D J ^a   Morton, K ^b   Eunson, A ^c   Gilmour, A ^a   Pritchard, D ^a   Valentine, A ^a  

^a M I LLC ^*

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^c Chevron Overseas Petroleum Inc

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID LOSS CONTROL; OIL BASED MUDS (OBM); WATER BASED MUDS (WBM);

ABRASION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DRILLING FLUIDS; DRILLING RIGS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; OFFSHORE DRILLING; RHEOLOGY; WELL PRESSURE;

WELL DRILLING;

EID: 1642439102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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