Development of recommended practices for completing and producing critical sour gas wells-materials requirements

NACE - International Corrosion Conference Series

Volumn 2003-April, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Hay, Malcolm G ^a   Belczewski, Daniel S ^b  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b Bissett Resource Consultants Limited   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acceptance criteria; Casing; H2S (hydrogen sulfide); Hydrogeninduced cracking; Recommended practices; Sour gas wells; Stress oriented hydrogen induced cracking; Sulfide stress cracking; Tubing

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE TESTS; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); GASES; HYDROGEN EMBRITTLEMENT; NATURAL GAS WELLS; SOUR GAS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WELL TESTING;

ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA; CASING; H2S (HYDROGEN SULFIDE); HYDROGEN INDUCED CRACKING; RECOMMENDED PRACTICE; SOUR GAS WELLS; SULFIDE STRESS CRACKING;

TUBING;

EID: 33645258546     PISSN: 03614409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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