Setting free the bear: The challenges and lessons of the Ursa A-10 deepwater ERD well

SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 1318-1332

  Gradishar, John ^a   Ugueto, Gustavo ^a   Van Oort, Eric ^b  

^a Shell Upstream Americas ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE INSTABILITY; DEEPWATER ENVIRONMENTS; EXTENDED REACH WELL; FAILURE MECHANISM; FRACTURED FORMATIONS; HORIZONTAL DISPLACEMENTS; NON-PRODUCTIVE TIME; SYNTHETIC-BASED MUDS;

BOREHOLES; BORING; DEEPWATER DRILLING; EXHIBITIONS; FRACTURE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; WELL DRILLING;

HORIZONTAL DRILLING;

EID: 84880983566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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