Effective ways to avoid barite sag and technologies to predict sag in HPHT and deviated wells

Deep Gas Conference and Exhibition 2010, DGAS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 457-463

  Amighi, Mohammad Reza ^a   Shahbazi, Khalil ^a  

^a PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARITE; CESIUM COMPOUNDS; DRILLING FLUIDS; HORIZONTAL WELLS; INFILL DRILLING; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS;

DENSITY DIFFERENCE; DENSITY VARIATIONS; DRILLING OPERATION; HIGH ANGLE WELLS; HIGH PRESSURE HIGH TEMPERATURE; MANGANESE TETRAOXIDE; PARTICLE SETTLING; ROTATIONAL VISCOMETER;

HIGH TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS;

EID: 77954299415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/132015-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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