Newsletters
| Newsletters |
| 2012 |
 Volume 16, Number 1 (2.31mb)
Safety Alert-Communication & Parking Neutralization of Hydrochloric Acid Extending Horizontal Drilling Reach Sweeps in High Angle Wells Retort Maintenance
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| 2011 |
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Volume 15 Number 1 (1478.86kb)
Excerpt from "Introduction to Drilling Fluids Technology" by A. Philips Safety Alert- Who are you working for? Billing Alert Double-Shoulder Drill Pipe Connection Planet Green's "Boomtown"
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Volume 15 Number 2 (614.57kb)
Meniscus Safety Alert-Sun Protection Biggest Bit Extended Reach 7 Miles Williston Basin Herschel-Bulkley Hydraulics Calculation |
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Volume 15 Number 3 (383.47kb)
Next Generation Travis Adams Kevin Helms Chuck Cartwright Safety Alert-Yield to Big and Small Mud Report |
| 2010 |
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Volume 14 Number 1 (333.80kb)
Why are the Hawaiin Islands a Chain? Driving Hazards Mud Man's Corner: The Right Answer, Paperwork Reminder, BHA on the Electronic Mud Report, Using Salt Water for Density, Stuck Pipe, Safety Awards, Printing to PDF |
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Volume 14 Number 2 (189.70kb)
Laser Drilling: Are we there yet? Accident Prevention Mud Man's Corner: Driving and Eyewear, SICP vs SIDPP, Winter Driving Sales Dept. Welcomes Travis Adams
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Volume 14 Number 3 (492.51kb)
The Empower Chair What You Don't Say Can Really Hurt Your ECD is Wrong Mud Man's Corner: Production Record, Wear a Hat Bob Dailey, Rockies Sales New Bits Shine in the Shales
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Volume 14 Number 4 (490.03kb)
Geothermal Energy Production and Drilling Ballooning Mud Man's Corner: Safety Alert, Heat Illness Prevention Well Control Disasters Free Money: Geothermal Scholarships, Application |
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Volume 14 Number 5 (744.32kb)
Macondo No. 1 and other Blowouts A Culture of Safety Drilling in a Sand Dune Brad Bush, Geothermal Operations |
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Volume 14 Number 6 (1438.02kb)
Texting While Driving Volcanic Plumes Revisited/Plate Tectonics Mudman's Corner-Delivery Tickets and Pricing Phosphoric Acid vs. Citric Acid Geyser's Water Injection |
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Volume 14 Number 7 (5.06mb)
California Geology Tule Fog or Snow & Ice-Safety Alert Tim New Eastern Rocky Mountain Operations Manager- Biography Oil History-Timeline Mark Sturn-Former GEO Employee |
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Volume 14 Number 8 (1419.58kb)
(ERD) Extended Reach Drilling - Aluminum Drill Pipe Tyler Formation-New North Dakota Shale Mudman's Corner-Legal Description, Brakes, and Towing Trailers Calcium Properties Kern River Field History Health Alert-Hantavirus |
| 2009 |
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Volume 13 Number 1 (346.65kb)
Philosophical Musings Situational Awareness-Feedback and More Mud Man's Corner- Mud Report, Drug Testing, VG Meter Sacramento County Gas Well |
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Volume 13 Number 2 (427.25kb)
44,240 Barrels Per Day Weighted Sweep Rock Softener Swell Packers Mud Man's Corner- Barite Calculations, Rathole Coverage, Forklift Operation |
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Volume 13 Number 3 (525.83kb)
Branding Oil Base Mud - PetroDrill Influenza and Other Personal Health Issues Lost Circulation Material Testing |
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Volume 13 Number 7 (562.07kb)
Placement of Jars H2S Poisonous Gas Mud Man's Corner: Paperwork, Mud Report 7.5.2 What's the Answer Organophillic Clay Viscosity H1N1 Swine Flu |
| 2008 |
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Volume 12 Number 1 (476.46kb)
They Called Me Big'N Job Safety Planning Swellable Elastomers Fishing for Drillpipe in the BOPE |
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Volume 12 Number 3 (472.72kb)
Running Out of Oil Sexual Harrasment CO2 Tertiary Oil Recovery Mud Man's Corner: Mud Balance, Mud Report, Fann 34 A VG Meter Flow Rate Calculation |
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Volume 12 Number 4 (339.74kb)
Industrial Minerals Recycling Program Seismic Exploration Mud Man's Corner: Plows for Mud, Travel Trailer Safety, Inspection, Pilot Testing, Phenolphthaylene for Cement Drillout |
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Volume 12 Number 5 (519.06kb)
The "Drake" Well Situational Awareness Mud Man's Corner: Printers, Vehicle Maintenance, SDIC, Product Identification, Computer |
| 2007 |
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Volume 11 Number 1 (368.85kb)
Mud School Refresher Safety Issues- Sleep and Heat Salt Origin without Evaporation Proposed Working in Summer Heat |
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Volume 11 Number 2 (480.30kb)
Deepest Hole in the World Ultra Low Shear Rate Viscosity Direct Reading Rotational Visometers Building People Carbon Dioxide and Drilling |
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Volume 11 Number 3 (719.76kb)
Rotary Drilling No Brainer Base Meridian Map Sand Traps Through the Years |
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Volume 11 Number 4 (197.60kb)
Safety Alert Schedule Geo Mud Alert Equipment Recall Demonizing our Enemies |
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Volume 11 Number 5 (256.24kb)
Urban Legend? Earthquakes and Other Disasters New Lab Equipment Clarizan vs. Geozan |
| 2006 |
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Volume 10 Number 1 (339.82kb)
Bread Cast Upon the Waters Safety Glasses VG Meter Relaxation Thomas Jefferson Rules of Living Acceptable Drilled Solids Mud Retort Use of Company Vehicles |
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Volume 10 Number 3 (151.79kb)
Oil History of the Rockies Rattlesnakes Mass, Density, Thermodynamics, and Normality |
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Volume 10 Number 2 (265.55kb)
Early Oil in California Oil Base Mud GEO Website New Shaker Screen Designation |
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Volume 10 Number 4 (1045.53kb)
Drillstring Telemetry CO2 Wedgie Mud Report v. 7.2.6 Mud Testing Equipment Expandable Casing & Liner |
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Volume 10 Number 5 (2.40mb)
Lake Peigneur Disaster Lift Like Your Back Depended On It Mud Technology Model 900 Features |
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Volume 10 Number 6 (285.66kb)
Mud School Material Safey Data Sheets Heavy Oil Procedures Hydrostatic Loss Caused by Gas-Cut Mud |
| 2005 |
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Volume 9 Number 2 (288.02kb)
Defensive Driving Hazard Report by Kevin Helms Non-aqueous Drilling Fluids |
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Volume 9 Number 3 (534.81kb)
Uninterruptible Barite Supply Smoking Lime Continuous Circulation Liquid Waste Reduction Barite Sag Moving Vehicle Accidents (MVA's) |
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Volume 9 Number 4 (356.85kb)
Mayonnaise Jar and Coffee Safety Communication Winter is Coming Employee Empowerment Lock Out / Tag Out Computer Files Lost Circulation Research Tule Fog Doodles from Deb |
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Volume 9 Number 5 (496.37kb)
Decision Making in the Presence of Ethical Dilemmas Lost Circulation Taking Care of the Warehouse Mud Report 7.2.0 Some Common Sizes of Particles |
| 2004 |
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Volume 8 Number 1 (337.38kb)
Well Completion Report Material Safety Data Sheets Wiley #8 Lost Circulation |
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Volume 8 Number 2 (320.10kb)
Accident Report Do Not Read Unless Over 40 Methylene Blue Test Underbalanced Drilling Cuisinart Comparisons English Class An Old Employee Turns 30 |
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Volume 8 Number 3 (389.01kb)
April Fools Day Protect Your Hearing Xanthan Polymers Use Your Powers of Observation Mixing Salts |
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Volume 8 Number 4 (333.56kb)
Acid Mud pH Why Safety Belts Other World Oil Tail Feathers Computer Courtesy Effect on Annular Volume of 5% and 10% Washout |
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Volume 8 Number 5 (287.05kb)
Cyclorama Heat Stress Xanthan Polymers Skin Damage From Oil Based Mud. Corrosion in Salt Water |
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Volume 8 Number 7 (444.33kb)
As One of Only Two Brands to be Marketed in all 50 States, Why 66? Hardness Titration The Wrong Kinds of Questions Managed Pressure Drilling Terry St. Onge (1933-2004) |
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Volume 8 Number 8 (614.81kb)
How to Find Oil and Gas Seasonal Hazards CFR - Catalyzed Friction Reducer How Fast is Too Fast? |
| 2003 |
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Volume 7 Number 1 (354.60kb)
Pico Drillsite Chloride Titration Molar Mass of an Element and Avogadro's Number Rack and Pinion, the Future of the Oil Fields? What is a Drill-In Fluid? |
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Volume 7 Number 2 (440.39kb)
Plate Tectonics and Mountain Building Winter Weather Safety Hazards GEO Stop Loss Computer Use |
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Volume 7 Number 3 (356.19kb)
Spring Pole Drilling Stop Loss Blending Chevy Truck Drivers Mud Performance Optimization Key Seat and Stuck Pipe |
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Volume 7 Number 4 (436.25kb)
History of Drilling Pickup Truck Driving Safety A Replacement for Desco? What's the Answer? |
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Volume 7 Number 5 (362.96kb)
Relief Well Drilling Techniques Mud Pit Sampling Carbon-Fiber Drill Pipe Passes Test New Resources Camcorder Goes Fishing |
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Volume 7 Number 6 (305.85kb)
Boston's Trinity Church Begins Renovations With Drilling Of Geothermal Wells The Use and Misuse of Centrifuges MUL THIK Organophillic Clay |
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Volume 7 Number 7 (645.40kb)
How Much is a Barrel of Petroleum? Why Do I Have To Do This Meaningless Paperwork? New Technique to Combat Lost Circulation The Doctrine of Negligent Entrustment Section, Township, and Range Mud Sample Labeling Natural Gas Hydrates Road Rage |
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Volume 7 Number 8 (301.93kb)
Deepest Well In California Salt Water Safety New Technology Printer Speed. Remember December Cable Tools |
| 2002 |
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Volume 6 Number 1 (368.43kb)
The Road Not Taken MSDS New Mud Pump Increases Capacity, Minimizes Vibration Think About This One! (Monkeys) Fish! |
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Volume 6 Number 2 (183.07kb)
West Virginia Early Oil Field History Engineering Guidelines, Material Management Calcium Chloride Safety Two Centuries Meet |
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Volume 6 Number 3 (607.93kb)
Ventura Avenue Near Miss Slag Mud (Universal Fluids) Printer Safety Recall Drilling Fluid Rheology Osmonics Filtration Spectrum |
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Volume 6 Number 4 (280.87kb)
Computer Users GEO Expanding Snubbing and Stripping Ethics in the Workplace |
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Volume 6 Number 5 (182.66kb)
Drilling for Water on Mars Driving Safety, Insurance, Safety Incentive Cement Bond Logs Bit Hydraulics Optimization |
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Volume 6 Number 6 (380.00kb)
Electronic Well Logging School In Session Real Time MWD with Fiber Optics Treating Out Contaminants Real Time Borehole Seismic The Last Step |
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Volume 6 Number 7 (799.47kb)
Cuttings Transport Lifting Safely Prospecting with Rotary Equipment in 1928 |
| 2001 |
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Volume 5 Number 1 (291.92kb)
Web Site Launched Comments on Safety Alerts Deepest Well Data Loss-gain Phenomenon Forward from AERA Safety Dept. Alkalinity Calculation Table Picture an Oil Well |
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Volume 5 Number 2 (124.18kb)
Comments On Safety Alerts What is Valley Fever? Mud Report Accuracy What is PPM? |
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Volume 5 Number 3 (208.44kb)
Gas Migration Rates Hazmat and Code of Safe Practices NFPA Label Barite Sag. Ultralow-Shear-Rate Viscosity, Static and Dynamic Barite Sag Hard to Drill Bitumen Well |
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Volume 5 Number 4 (192.19kb)
Oil Base Mud vs. Water Base Mud for HTHP "Feast of Clay" Day "n" and "K" |
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Volume 5 Number 5 (167.08kb)
pH Meters, Principles and Care Job Planning Safety Checklist Cement Additives, Sugar, CaCl2, and NaCl |
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Volume 5 Number 6 (264.89kb)
Extra Equipment Carry a Camera Mobile Phone Safety To K or not to K, that is the question Oil, Our Untapped Energy Wealth |
| 2000 |
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Volume 4 Number 1 (227.42kb)
Getting Less Than 6 Hours Sleep Risky Mud School Gears Up for Boom Automated Straight Hole Drilling Casing Conveyed Perforating Guns Canada Casing While Drilling Take the Food and Nutrition Quiz Pond Sealing Brochure |
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Volume 4 Number 2 (318.90kb)
Rotary Drilling Formation Evaluation Screen Mesh Sizes Safety Communication Responses Communication Computer Files- Zip, Save & d-Base IV |
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Volume 4 Number 3 (294.32kb)
House Keeping an Important 1st Step Safety Communication Responses Eye, Ear and Head Protection Variables That Affect Cement Plug Stability Oil Mines of Kern County |
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Volume 4 Number 5 (239.36kb)
Horizontal Tripping Practices Marsh Funnel Viscosity New Phone List New Chloride Charts Dynamic Fluid Loss Testing |
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Volume 4 Number 4 (912.13kb)
A Message to Garcia Industrial Dermatitis New Downhole Tool Extends Coiled Tubing Reach |
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Volume 4 Number 6 (233.41kb)
Universal Fluid aka Slag Mud Pickup Trucks Hauling Chemicals Carrying Capacity of a Drilling Fluid Fraction Conversion Table Watermelons Tank Volume for Partially Filled Horizontal Tanks |
| 1999 |
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Volume 3 Number 1 (242.47kb)
IMCO Sacramento Mill 805 Is Now 661 Density of Barite Multilateral Technology Multilateral Classification System Flexible Anti-vibration Bit Shock sub Performance Tests Common Back Problems |
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Volume 3 Number 2 (318.88kb)
Trenchless Pipelines KlayCon MSDS Safety Communications Wellbore Stability Based on Energy Bit Balling and PDC Bits PDC Bit Performance in Deep Shale |
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Volume 3 Number 3 (146.96kb)
Drilling Optimization If It Ain't Broke Fix It Oil Prices Historical Perspective Oil Company Report Card The Burning Question 1860 Oil Mine Hydropulses Increase Drilling Penetration Rates |
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Volume 3 Number 4 (409.98kb)
IMCO's 1st Spring Fling Safety Hanta Virus Don't Be A Hero HWDP Sizes Water Shut Off In 1921 |
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Volume 3 Number 5 (154.86kb)
The Sinking City (Subsidence) PDC Bit Technology Some Common (and not so common) Definitions Organophillic Clays and Oil Base Mud The Deepest Well in the World |
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Volume 3 Number 6 (229.79kb)
IMCO Raymond Mills Circulate and Weight Well Control Method Blowout On the Care and Feeding of VG Meters Message from the President |
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Volume 3 Number 7 (267.11kb)
Safety (Driving) Wire Line Retrieval Coring Technology Shows Promise What does a Bit Look Like? Please Read What You Write! Is the Mud Cleaner Throwing Away All My Barite? |
| 1998 |
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Volume 2 Number 1 (63.32kb)
Electronic Mud Report Microbial Activity Effects Production Formation Integrity Testing Temp & Pressure Effect Rheology Xanvis and XCD and Cement |
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Volume 2 Number 2 (78.77kb)
Safety and MSDS New Price List Lost Circulation Lubricity Dual Density Mud Michigan Heavy Mud Chloride Charts |
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Volume 2 Number 3 (128.20kb)
Safety responses Cement Drillout Barite Product List, Uses, Comparable Products |
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Volume 2 Number 4 (74.09kb)
Extreme Density Mud (Don Boulet) Safety MSDS and Chemicals Casing Modeling Pressure While Drilling Mud Equipment Inventory |
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Volume 2 Number 5 (74.09kb)
Driving While Drowsy Critical Velocity Explained Anticipating the Unexpected Questionnaire |
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Volume 2 Number 6 (113.53kb)
Rookie Mud Engineer Summer Safety Alert Reduced Clearance Casing Programs Bit Balling and Penetration Rates Laser Drilling PDC Bit Hydraulics |
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Volume 2 Number 7 (200.25kb)
Revolutionary Thinner (Acid) IIPP Safety Considerations Cement Treatment Differential Sticking |
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Volume 2 Number 8 (208.91kb)
Deflocculation vs. Dispersion HEC Precipitation at High Temperature Calcium Solubility Hole Cleaning in Horizontal Wells Dish Washing Tips Extended Reach Composite Materials Drillpipe Accident Prevention (autos and trucks) Sleepiness While Driving |
| 1997 |
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Volume 1 Number 1 (39.77kb)
News Letter Introduction Filter Press Safety Cutting Transport H-Break 100 SDIC for Xanvis |
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Volume 1 Number 3 (129.53kb)
Lateral Jet PDC Drill In Fluids for Horizontal Wells Hydraulic Wellbore Erosion Tractor Pulled Logging Tools Inhibition of Various Brines Shaker Screens and CFR |
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Volume 1 Number 5 (140.24kb)
Slate Weight for Abandonment Graphic for the Newsletter SDIC Update Bentonite Clay Chemistry Ashes in the Wind (Bentonite) What is Good Clay? Bentonite is Best Viscosifier Brine and Clay Stabilizer Selection Cuttings Transport |
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Volume 1 Number 6 (82.37kb)
SAG-D and Vapex Process Cold Production of Heavy Oil Stress Effects Horizontal Success Explosive Pipe Recovery Method pH Effect on CFR Cement Effect on Desco |
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GEO Drilling Fluids Technical Services Newsletter contains valuable information for best practices, and Safety Alerts.
GEO Drilling Fluids Technical Services Newsletter contains valuable information for best practices, and Safety Alerts.
