| Autor: |
Willson, Stephen M., Driscoll, Peter M., Judzis, Arnis, Black, Alan D., Wesley Martin, J., Ehgartner, Brian L., Hinkebein, Tom E. |
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SPE Drilling & Completion; Sep2004, Vol. 19 Issue 3, p147-155, 9p |
| Abstrakt: |
Details the results of comprehensive and large-scale laboratory testing program performed on outcrop salt samples that replicate drilling salt formations with unsaturated drilling fluids. Presentation of analytical hole-enlargement prediction model that incorporates the effects of rate of penetration; Discussion of predictions of field performance and implications of the predicted hole geometry; Description of field application on the historical practice of drilling into salt using a saturated brine drilling fluid which was discontinued in preference to the continued use of seawater. |
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Supplemental Index |
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