Environmental assessment of synthetic based drilling mud discharges to Bass Strait, Australia

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production 1998, HSE 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Terrens, G W ^a   Gwyther, D ^b   Keough, M J ^c   Tait, R D ^d  

^a Esso Australia Ltd   (Australia)

^b Dames and Moore Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d Exxon Ventures (CIS) Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIODEGRADATION; DISPERSIONS; DRILLING FLUIDS; DRILLS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ESTERS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; INFILL DRILLING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; OFFSHORE GAS FIELDS; OIL FIELDS; OIL WELL COMPLETION; PROVEN RESERVES; RECOVERY; SEDIMENTS;

BARIUM CONCENTRATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTALLY ACCEPTABLE; EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT; FIELD-MONITORING PROGRAMS; LUBRICATING PROPERTIES; SYNTHETIC-BASED MUDS; WATER-BASED DRILLING;

WELL DRILLING;

EID: 85054565934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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