Stability modelling applied to wellbore design

Geoingegneria Ambientale e Mineraria

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 5-12

  Rocca, Vera ^a   Verga, Francesca ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Borehole design in petroleum reservoir; Desai's plastic model; Fully coupled approach; Shale formation instability; Thermo poro mechanical stability model

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951779799     PISSN: 11219041     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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