Benchmark Performance: Zero Barite Sag and Significantly Reduced Downhole Losses with the Industry's First Clay-Free Synthetic-Based Fluid

SPE/IADC Drilling Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Burrows, Kim ^a,b   Carbajal, David ^a,b   Kirsner, Jeff ^a,b   Owen, Bobby ^a,b  

^a SPE   (United States)

^b HALLIBURTON   (United States)

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