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Settling behavior of fine cuttings in fiber-containing polyanionic fluids for drilling and hole cleaning application
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2021 , Article)
For efficient drilling operations, cuttings transport within the oil and gas wellbore is fundamental. Inadequate hole cleaning results in many problems including reduced rate of penetration, increased torque, bit wearing, ...
CFD modeling of particle settling in drilling fluids: Impact of fluid rheology and particle characteristics
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2021 , Article)
The settling of drilling cuttings is important for the drilling and clean-out operations. The current article provides a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling study of particle settling behavior during the drilling ...