Innovative chemistry for drilling fluid additives

SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, MEOS, Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 1558-1567

  Zheng, Jun ^a   Wang, Jianzhao ^a   Musa, Osama M ^a   Farrar, David ^a   Cockcroft, Bob ^a   Robinson, Alison ^a   Gibbison, Robert ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL SPECIALTY PRODUCTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; ELASTICITY; INFILL DRILLING; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; OVENS; POLYMERS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR THINNING; STABILITY; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); THERMAL AGING; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; XANTHAN GUM;

BASIC CHARACTERISTICS; DRILLING FLUID ADDITIVES; RHEOLOGICAL PROFILES; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; STABILITY PROPERTIES; THERMAL STABILITY STUDIES; THICKENING EFFICIENCY; WATER BASED DRILLING FLUIDS;

DRILLING FLUIDS;

EID: 84863023897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/142099-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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