Buckling of tubulars inside wellbores: A review on recent theoretical and experimental works

SPE Drilling and Completion

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-19

  Cunha, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; TORQUE;

HELICAL BUCKLING; TUBULARS; WELLBORES;

BOREHOLES;

OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION; WELL TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 1842632006     PISSN: 10646671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/87895-PA     Document Type: Article

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