Percussion drilling...is it a lost technique? A review

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Permian Basin Oil and Gas Recovery Conference, OGR 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 741-747

  Samuel, G Robello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COILED TUBING; ENERGY TRANSFER; HAMMERS; INFILL DRILLING;

BASIC PRINCIPLES; DRILLING TECHNOLOGY; DRIVING MECHANISM; EXTENDED REACH WELL; GENERATION TOOLS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; SECOND GENERATION; STRESS WAVEFORMS;

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 85046270202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/35240-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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