Drilling through salt: Constitutive behavior and drilling strategies

Gulf Rocks 2004 - 6th North America Rock Mechanics Symposium, NARMS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Dusseault, Maurice B ^a   Maury, Vincent ^b   Sanfilippo, Francesco ^c   Santarelli, Frédéric J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b GEOMEC AS   (France)

^c GEOMEC AS   (Italy)

^d Geomec Environmental Management AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE MINERALS; CREEP; DRILLING FLUIDS; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; STRINGERS;

CONSTITUTIVE BEHAVIORS; CREEP BEHAVIOUR; DIFFERENTIAL DISSOLUTION; DIFFERENTIAL STRESS; DRILLING FLUID DENSITY; HIGH SOLUBILITY; STRESS DIFFERENCE; VISCOUS MATERIALS;

INFILL DRILLING;

EID: 85059251328     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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