September 1999
Features
Viscosified CaCl drill-in fluid drills trouble-free horizontal wells
Operator used inhibitive brine with new viscosifier to cut costs, protect low-permeability formation in field's first horizontal completion attempt
FROM THE ARCHIVE
- Applying ultra-deep LWD resistivity technology successfully in a SAGD operation (May 2019)
- Adoption of wireless intelligent completions advances (May 2019)
- Majors double down as takeaway crunch eases (April 2019)
- What’s new in well logging and formation evaluation (April 2019)
- Qualification of a 20,000-psi subsea BOP: A collaborative approach (February 2019)
- ConocoPhillips’ Greg Leveille sees rapid trajectory of technical advancement continuing (February 2019)