SPE Drilling & Completion
Volume 27, Number 2, June 2012

Executive Summary
Curtis Cheatham, Weatherford International

Executive and Associate Editors

Publication Information

 

Classic SPE Drilling & Completion Paper

SPE 14428  Drilling the Cold Lake Horizontal Well Pilot No. 2 
R.R. MacDonald

Drilling Engineering Training with Directional Drilling Examples

147242-PA

Simple Engineering Applications Recycled as Effective Training Aids

S.J. Sawaryn, SPE, BP plcpp. 184-193Preview | PDF ( 683 KB )    Rights & Permission

Well Control and Managed Pressure Drilling

143101-PA

A Proposed Method for Planning the Best Initial Response to Kicks Taken During Managed-Pressure-Drilling Operations

J.R. Smith, SPE, Louisiana State University, and B.M. Patel, Weatherford Internationalpp. 194-203Preview | PDF ( 968 KB )    Rights & Permission

160481-PA

A Dynamic Model of Percolating Gas in a Wellbore

E. Hauge, SPE; Ø.N. Stamnes, SPE; and O.M. Aamo, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; and J.-M. Godhavn, SPE, Statoil ASA, Norwegian University of Science and Technologypp. 204-215Preview | PDF ( 3,676 KB )    Rights & Permission

Drillstring Dynamics

147747-PA

Quantification of Drillstring-Integrity-Failure Risk Using Real-Time Vibration Measurements

Yezid Arevalo and Ashley Fernandes, Schlumbergerpp. 216-222Preview | PDF ( 4,008 KB )    Rights & Permission

Casing Drilling

136107-PA

Casing While Drilling (CwD): A New Approach To Drilling Fiqa Formation in he Sultanate of Oman--A Success Story

F. Sánchez, SPE; S. Houqani, SPE, Petroleum Development Oman; M. Turki, SPE, Tesco Corporation; and M. Cruz, SPE, Baker Hughespp. 223-232Preview | PDF ( 6,364 KB )    Rights & Permission

Completions

143998-PA

An Improved Technique for Interpreting Perforating-Flow-Laboratory Results: Honoring Observed Cleanup Mechanisms

B. Grove, SPE, J. Harvey, SPE, L. Zhan, SPE, D. Atwood, SPE, Schlumbergerpp. 233-240Preview | PDF ( 3,073 KB )    Rights & Permission

146231-PA

Casing- and Screen-Failure Analysis in Highly Compacting Sandstone Fields

K. Furui, SPE, and G.F. Fuh, SPE, ConocoPhillips Company; and N. Morita, SPE, Waseda Universitypp. 241-252Preview | PDF ( 7,362 KB )    Rights & Permission

143204-PA

In-Situ Mechanical- and Functional-Behavior Characterization of a Shape-Memory Polymer for Sand-Control Applications

Yusheng Yuan, SPE, Jim Goodson, SPE, Mike Johnson, SPE, and David Gerrard, SPE, Baker Hughespp. 253-263Preview | PDF ( 1 KB )    Rights & Permission

144259-PA

Transferring Intelligent-Well-System Triple-Gauge Data Into Real-Time Flow Allocation

Kai Sun, SPE, Chevron; and Oluwole Omole, SPE, Luigi Saputelli, SPE, and Fabio Gonzalez, SPE, Hess Corporationpp. 264-281Preview | PDF ( 9,286 KB )    Rights & Permission

Formation Damage

144098-PA

Characterization of Filter Cake Generated by Water-Based Drilling Fluids Using CT Scan

S.M. Elkatatny, SPE, M.A. Mahmoud, SPE, and H.A. Nasr-El-Din, SPE, Texas A&M Universitypp. 282-293Preview | PDF ( 7,516 KB )    Rights & Permission

Well Integrity

142854-PA

Assessing Well-Integrity Risk: A Qualitative Model

J.C. Dethlefs, SPE, ConocoPhillips, and B. Chastain, Arktispp. 294-302Preview | PDF ( 5,759 KB )    Rights & Permission

139668-PA

Use of a Mechanistic Model To Forecast Cement-Sheath Integrity

Axel-Pierre Bois, CurisTec, and André Garnier, Grégory Galdiolo, and Jean-Benoît Laudet, Total S.A.pp. 303-314Preview | PDF ( 2,681 KB )    Rights & Permission

Wellbore Strengthening

145765-PA

Parametric Analysis of Wellbore-Strengthening Methods From Basic Rock Mechanics

Nobuo Morita, Waseda University, and Giin-Fa Fuh, ConocoPhillips Companypp. 315-327Preview | PDF ( 3,780 KB )    Rights & Permission