Drilling fluids rheological and volumetric characterization under downhole conditions

Proceedings of the SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1616-1623

  Demirdal, B ^a   Miska, S ^b   Takach, N ^c   Cunha, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Atlas Wireline Services

^c UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDS; PRESSURE CONTROL; PRESSURE DROP; RHEOLOGY;

EQUIVALENT CIRCULATING DENSITY (ECD); PRESSURE LOSSES;

OIL WELL DRILLING;

EID: 34547897674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/108111-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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