An integrated system approach to wellbore cleanouts with coiled tubing

Proceedings of the SPE/ICoTA Coiled Tubing Roundtable Conference

Volumn 2004, Issue , 2004, Pages 19-28

  Rolovic, Radovan ^a   Weng, Xiaowei ^a   Hill, Stephen ^a   Robinson, Geoff ^a   Zemlak, Kean ^a   Najafov, Jeyhun ^a  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAUXITE DEPOSITS; BOTTOM HOLE PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRILLING FLUIDS; FRACTURING FLUIDS; FUEL PUMPS; GAS OILS; INTEGRATED CONTROL; NOZZLES; ROTATING MACHINERY; SAND; TUBING; VISCOSITY;

COILED TUBING (CT); FLUID RHEOLOGY; WASH NOZZLES; WELLBORE CLEANOUTS;

OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

EID: 2942585372     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/89333-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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