Monitoring of down-hole parameters for early kick detection

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 40, Issue , 2016, Pages 43-54

  Nayeem, Ayesha Arjumand ^a   Venkatesan, Ramachandran ^a   Khan, Faisal ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blowout; Down hole monitoring; Drilling hazards; Early kick detection

Indexed keywords

BLOWOUTS; ERRORS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CONDUCTIVITY SENSORS; DETECTION SYSTEM; DOWN-HOLE MONITORING; DRILLING HAZARDS; HIGH PROBABILITY; LOST CIRCULATION; NUMBER OF FALSE ALARMS; SENSITIVE PARAMETER;

BOREHOLES;

EID: 84949802031     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2015.11.025     Document Type: Article

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