Dual-gradient drilling

Managed Pressure Drilling

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 181-226

  Cohen, John ^a   Stave, Roger ^a   Schubert, Jerome ^b   Elieff, Brandee ^b  

^a AGR Subsea ^*  (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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