Drill-bit metamorphism: Recognition and impact on show evaluation

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages 4565-4573

  Wenger, Lloyd M ^c   Pottorf, Robert J ^c   MacLeod, Gordon ^c   Otten, Glenn ^c   Dreyfus, Sebastien ^c   Justwan, Holger ^a   Wood, Emily Sekula ^b  

^a Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BITS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIAMOND DRILLS; DRILLING FLUIDS; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; ETHYLENE; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; GASES; GASOLINE; LITHOLOGY; MUD LOGGING; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; ROCK DRILLS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEXTURES;

DRILLING OPERATION; DRILLING TECHNOLOGY; GEOCHEMICAL INTERPRETATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; OIL-BASED DRILLING FLUID; PENETRATION RATES; PETROLEUM EXPLORATION; POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND COMPACT BITS;

INFILL DRILLING;

EID: 78349248611     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/125218-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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