New design models and materials provide engineered solutions to lost circulation

SPE Russian Oil and Gas Technical Conference and Exhibition 2006

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 194-207

  Whitfill, Donald L ^a   Jamison, Dale E ^a   Wang, Max ^a   Thaemlitz, Carl ^a  

^a HALLIBURTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; DRILLING FLUIDS; FRACTURING (OIL WELLS); HYDRAULICS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

BOREHOLE STRESS; EQUIVALENT CIRCULATING DENSITIES (ECD); LOST CIRCULATION;

OIL WELLS;

EID: 33846582462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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