Drilling wellbore stability in the compacting and subsiding Valhall field

Proceedings of the Drilling Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1049-1063

  Kristiansen, ^a   Golder, Tron ^a  

^a BP ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; OIL BEARING FORMATIONS; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; PORE PRESSURE; ROCK MECHANICS; STRATIGRAPHY;

DRILLING ENGINEERING; ERD; WATERBASED MUD; WELLBORE STABILITY;

OIL WELL DRILLING;

EID: 33646988468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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