Drilling/completion fluids
This paper presents the concept of a supervisory and advisory system dedicated to support the detection of abnormal events and to provide guidelines for fluid treatment.
This paper describes the success of using a new low-equivalent-circulating-density organophilic clay-free inverted emulsion fluid in gas reservoirs at elevated temperatures and with differential pressures up to 4,500 psi.
This paper describes a systematic full-scale test program to study and optimize solids-control efficiency with hollow-glass-beads drilling fluids.
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Against a backdrop of global uncertainty and challenging economics, well integrity subject-matter experts have continued to prioritize human and environmental safety in production while pivoting their skills toward areas of growing importance such as carbon capture and sequestration. New technologies and simulation methods have allowed the authors of the three SPE pap… -
Recent developments in drilling-systems automation provide a multitude of opportunities to have real-time monitoring of drilling-fluid properties and early diagnosis of drilling-fluid-related complications that might arise while drilling. Coupled with closed-loop control of surface and downhole drilling-fluid properties, automated monitoring of fluid properties would …
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This paper presents experiences from an automated drilling-fluids-monitoring initiative and resulting real-time hydraulic measurements and models for automatic drilling control.
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This paper presents the design and functionality of an apparatus that measures directly and automatically the pressure/volume/temperature (PVT) behavior of the drilling fluid contained in a pit.
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In this paper, alternative approaches to solids characterization are presented that lend themselves better to automation and real-time monitoring than API retort measurement.
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Fluid identification, a critical process in fluid sampling, continues to be a challenge in temperatures above 350°F. At temperatures up to 450°F, fluid identification is currently achieved by bubblepoint and compressibility measurements, which cannot quantitatively measure contamination levels of the sample fluid. A possible solution involves using pyroelectric detect…
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The qualification and first deployment of a low-solids, oil-based completion fluid that incorporates a newly developed, high-density brine as the internal phase to extend the density limit is discussed.
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S13Cr tubing specimens experienced stress corrosion cracking with phosphate-based completion fluids contaminated with mud and oxygen, whereas formate-based completion fluid is compatible with the tubing.
