SPE Drilling & Completion
Volume 26, Number 3, September 2011

Carbon Capture and Storage

139635-PA

Quantifying the Risk of CO2 Leakage Through Wellbores

M. Loizzo, SPE, O.A.P. Akemu, SPE, L. Jammes, SPE, and J. Desroches, SPE, Schlumberger Carbon Services; and S. Lombardi and A. Annunziatellis, Universitá di Romapp. 324-331Preview | PDF ( 479 KB )    Rights & Permission

139713-PA

The Effect of CO2-Saturated Brine on the Conductivity of Wellbore-Cement Fractures

Tevfik Yalcinkaya, Mileva Radonjic, and Richard G. Hughes, SPE; and Clinton S. Willson and Kyungmin Ham, Louisiana State Universitypp. 332-340Preview | PDF ( 1,224 KB )    Rights & Permission

Cementing and Zonal Isolation

140144-PA

Dynamic Aspects Governing Cement-Plug Placement in Deepwater Wells

P.E. Aranha, C.R. Miranda, J.V.M. Magalhães, G. Campos, A.L. Martins, A.B. Ramalho, and M.F. Naccachepp. 341-351Preview | PDF ( 1,364 KB )    Rights & Permission

142150-PA

Ongoing Development of Cementing Practices and Technologies for Kuwait Oil Company's Deep HP/HT Exploration and Gas Wells: Case History

M.J. Al-Saeedi, SPE, D. Al-Enezi, SPE, M.N.A. Al-Mudhaf, SPE, and T. Modak, SPE, Kuwait Oil Company, and D.C. McKinnell, SPE, Total Kuwaitpp. 352-363Preview | PDF ( 1,440 KB )    Rights & Permission

Well Control and Blowouts

133019-PA

The Impact of Rotating Control Devices on the Incidence of Blowouts: A Case Study for Onshore Texas, USA

C.J. Jablonowski, SPE, and A.L. Podio, SPE, University of Texas at Austinpp. 364-370Preview | PDF ( 553 KB )    Rights & Permission

Drilling Operations

133446-PA

Permanent Abandonment of a North Sea Well Using Unconsolidated Well-Plugging Material

Arild Saasen, SPE, Det norske oljeselskap ASA and the University of Stavanger; Sturla Wold, SPE, Bjørn Thore Ribesen, SPE, Tu Nhat Tran, SPE, Det norske oljeselskap ASA; Arve Huse, SPE, AGR Petroleum A/S; and Vidar Rygg, SPE, Ingvar Grannes, SPE, and Alf Svindland, SPE, Sandaband Well Plugging A/Spp. 371-375Preview | PDF ( 572 KB )    Rights & Permission

Inflow-Control Devices

124677-PA

Understanding the Roles of Inflow-Control Devices in Optimizing Horizontal-Well Performance

Zhuoyi Li, SPE, Schlumberger; Preston Fernandes, SPE, Chevron; and D. Zhu, SPE, Texas A&M Universitypp. 376-385Preview | PDF ( 865 KB )    Rights & Permission

130490-PA

Multinode Intelligent-Well Technology for Active Inflow Control in Horizontal Wells

Kai Sun, SPE, Baker Hughes Incorporated; Boyun Guo, SPE, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; and Luigi Saputelli, SPE, Hess Corporationpp. 386-395Preview | PDF ( 1,183 KB )    Rights & Permission

Deepwater Completions

134254-PA

Planning and Execution of Highly Overbalanced Completions From a Floating Rig: The Ursa-Princess Waterflood Project

Craig D. Stair, SPE, Chuck H. Hinnant, SPE, Natalya O. Hines, Jamie M. Schober, SPE, Chris L. Davis, SPE, Ken F. Lizak, SPE, and Brian A. Pugh, SPE, Shell International Exploration and Productionpp. 396-407Preview | PDF ( 669 KB )    Rights & Permission

Tubulars

134563-PA

Continuing Application of Torque-Position Assembly Technology for API Connections

James P. Powers, SPE, ExxonMobil Development Company; and Michael S. Chelf, SPE, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Companypp. 408-411Preview | PDF ( 284 KB )    Rights & Permission

135462-PA

A Major Advancement in Expandable Connection Performance, Enabling Reliable Gastight Expandable Connections

Richard DeLange, SPE, Raju Gandikota, and Scott Osburn, SPE, Weatherford Internationalpp. 412-418Preview | PDF ( 684 KB )    Rights & Permission

119468-PA

New Standard for Evaluating Casing Connections for Thermal-Well Applications

Jaroslaw Nowinka, SPE, and Dan Dall’Acqua, SPE, Noetic Engineering 2008pp. 419-431Preview | PDF ( 474 KB )    Rights & Permission

139829-PA

Casing Design With Flowing Fluids

Robert F. Mitchell, Halliburtonpp. 432-435Preview | PDF ( 151 KB )    Rights & Permission

139824-PA

Lateral Buckling--The Key to Lockup

Robert F. Mitchell, Halliburton, and Tore Weltzin, Statoilpp. 436-452Preview | PDF ( 1,047 KB )    Rights & Permission