Joint Industry Project - DEA 161
Practical Wellbore Stability Prediction
The Practical Wellbore Stability Prediction Joint Industry Project is a multi-company research effort aimed at reducing expensive well construction problems such as wellbore collapse and lost circulation.
Conducted by Knowledge Systems under the auspices of the Drilling Engineering Association, DEA 161 was formed to identify and develop best practices for practical wellbore stability analysis, as well as develop guidelines to assess the relative priority of data types and the minimum data needed for effective modeling.
The project plans to examine about 250 wellbores from five regions around the world. Studies are planned for:- U.S. deepwater Gulf of Mexico
- U.S. Gulf of Mexico shelf
- Western Canada (WCSB)
- Australian northwest shelf
- North Sea
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JIP Focused on Practical Wellbore Stability Prediction |