Extending thermal stability of calcium carbonate pills using sepiolite drilling fluid

The aim is to investigate the plugging ability of sepiolite clay water base drilling fluids over a wide range of high permeable zones at high temperature and high pressure conditions. The special emphasis of this study is to extend the usage of loss preventer material (LPM) as a component of fresh w...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ali ETTEHADI, Gursat ALTUN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2017-06-01
Series:Petroleum Exploration and Development
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876380417300551