PRACTICAL APPROACH SOLVING THE LOST CIRCULATION PROBLEM DURING DRILLING OPERATION
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With increasing demand for oil and gas resources, oil and gas well drilling is performed challenge and harsh environment. One of the drilling campaign challenges facing the oil and gas industry now an issue of lost circulation while drilling. Great strides have been made in understanding and solving this problem. The lost circulation is the most troublesome and costly problem in drilling for oil and gas, Althoughyearly costs in materials, lost time and lost holes reach millions of dollar, no functionally new lost circulation materials or techniques have been developed in the past ten years. However, most products and measures to combat loss of circulation tend to promote specific service businesses. Although many experiment and modelling studies have been conducted over the past three decades, there are still divergent view on the underlying mechanisms of leakage and borehole reinforcement. The purpose of this study was to develop a practical method guide that is generic and not specific to service company products, but also serves as a tecnical guide for drilling crew to avoid lost circulation issues in drilling operation.
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