Rheological Properties of Drilling Muds in Deep Offshore Conditions

SPE/IADC Drilling Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Herzhaft, Benjamin ^a   Peysson, Yannick ^a   Isambourg, Patrick ^b   Delepoulle, Amaury ^b   Toure, Abdoulaye ^b  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^b TotalFina Elf ^*

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