Rock mechanics aspects of blowout self-containment

A blowout is an uncontrolled flow of reservoir fluids into the wellbore to the surface, causing serious, sometimes catastrophic, problems in different types of petroleum engineering operations. If the formation's strength is low and the pore pressure is high, bridging can be a very effective me...

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Main Author: Akbarnejad Nesheli, Babak
Other Authors: Schubert, jerome J.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1835
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1835