'Dry' drilling location - an ultimate source reduction challenge: theory, design, and economics

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-1993

Abstract

The term ″dry″ wellsite denotes a drilling operation without the use of an earthen reserve mud pit in land drilling, or without the overboard dumping of bulk drilling fluid in offshore drilling. As the two field practices have been increasingly scrutinized in environmentally sensitive areas, and the hauling off of bulk waste drilling mud is either too expensive or impossible to do, the minimum volume control becomes an important part of drilling technology. This paper presents mechanistic and economic models of the controlled-volume drilling process and their theoretical use to design a ″dry″ location.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Proceedings of the SPE/EPA Exploration and Production Environmental Conference

First Page

659

Last Page

668

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