New technology cured severe mud losses in challenging HPHT wells

World Oil

Volumn 225, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 60-65

  Sweatman, Ron ^a,b   Wang, Hong ^a,b   Engelman, Bob ^a,b   Sanad, Medhat ^a,c   Butler, Carl ^a,c  

^a BP ^*

^b HALLIBURTON   (United States)

^c BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOWNHOLE WELLS; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; SOFTWARE-AIDED ANALYSIS; WELLBORE PRESSURE CONTAINMENT (WPC);

DRILLING; ELASTIC MODULI; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; ROCKS; SAND; SEALANTS; STRESS ANALYSIS; WELLS;

BOREHOLES;

EID: 4043117729     PISSN: 00438790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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