Drilling deeper, longer and more challenging wells has been made possible by improvements in drilling technologies, including more efficient and effective drilling fluids. Drilling fluids, also ...
Drilling waste management has moved beyond skips and disposal, but the greatest gains still begin inside the active mud ...
Accurate prediction of bottomhole circulating temperatures (BHCT) and bottomhole static temperatures (BHST) is important during drilling and completion of oil and gas wells. These downhole ...
Occidental Petroleum Corp. successfully performed post-fracturing cleanouts in Midland basin using aphron fluids in depleted reservoirs requiring light fluids with low leakoff properties. Comparison ...