Foam Properties Requirements for Proper Hole Cleaning While Drilling Horizontal Wells in Underbalanced Conditions

SPE - Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 247-257

  Martins, A L ^a   Lourenco A M F ^a   De Sa C H M ^a  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED EROSION; FOAM STABILITY; FOAMED SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULICS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; OPTIMIZATION; RHEOLOGY;

OIL WELL DRILLING;

EID: 1842484393     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

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