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An in-house publication, addressing the interests of mud engineers, with occasional items of general interest. |
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| 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 | ||
Date |
Volume/Number |
Articles | 06/17/97 | 1/1 |
Newsletter Introduction Filter Press Safety Cuttings Transport H-Break 100 SDIC for Xanvis |
| 07/07/97 | 1/2 |
LD-8 Defoamer Packer Fluids Shaker Screen Size HEC/Xanvis/XCD Breakers |
| 08/07/97 | 1/3 |
Lateral Jet PDC Drill In Fluids for Horizontal Wells Hydraulic Wellbore Erosion Tractor Pulled Logging Tools Inhibition of Various Brines Shaker Screens and CFR |
| 09/02/97 | 1/4 |
What is a Drill-In Fluid |
| 09/25/97 | 1/5 |
Slate Weight for Abandonment Graphic for the Newsletter SDIC Update Bentonite Clay Chemistry Ashes in the Wind (Bentonite) What is a Good Clay? Bentonite is Best Viscosifier Brine and Clay Stabilizer Selection Cuttings Transport SPE |
| 11/08/97 | 1/6 |
SAG-D and VAPEX Process Cold Production of Heavy Oil Stress Effects Horizontal's Success Explosive Pipe Recovery Method pH Effect on CFR Dramatic Cement Effect on Desco |
| 12/20/97 | 1/7 |
Gravel Pack in Soft Formations Safety; Driving - Rest Recaps |
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| 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 | ||
Date |
Volume/Number |
Articles | 01/25/98 | 2/1 |
Electronic Mud Report Microbial Activity Effects Production Safety Response Needed Formation Integrity Testing Temp & Pressure Effect Rheology Xanvis and XCD and Cement |
| 03/20/98 | 2/2 |
Safety and MSDS New Price List Lost Circulation Liubricity Dual Density Mud Michigan Heavy Mud Chloride Charts |
| 04/20/98 | 2/3 |
Safety Responces Cement Drillout Barite Product LIst, Uses, Comparable Products |
| 05/20/98 | 2/4 |
Extreme Density Mud (Boulet) Safety MSDS and Chemicals Casing Modeling Pressure While Drilling Mud Equipment Inventory |
| 07/15/98 | 2/5 |
Driving While Drowsy Critical Velocity Explained Anticipating the Unexpected Questionaire |
| 09/01/98 | 2/6 |
Rookie Mud Engineer Summer Safety Alert Reduced Clearance Casing Programs Bit Balling and Penetration Rates Laser Drilling PDC bit hydraulics |
| 11/10/98 | 2/7 |
Revolutionary Thinner (Acid) IIPP Safety Considerations Cement Treatment Differential Sticking |
| 12/25/98 | 2/8 |
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/Trucks) Safety Sleepiness w/Driving |
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| 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 | ||
Date |
Volume/Number |
Articles | 02/15/99 | 3/1 |
Imco Sacramento Mill 805 is now 661 Density of Barite Multilateral Technology Multilateral Classification System Flexible Anti-Vibration Bit Shock Sub Perfomance Tests Common Back Problems |
| 03/25/99 | 3/2 |
Trenchless Pipelines Klay Con Safety Communications Wellbore Stability Based on Energy Bit Balling and PDC Bits PDC Bit Performance in Deep Shale |
| 05/10/99 | 3/3 |
Drilling Optimization If It Aint Broke Fix It Oil Prices Historical Perspective Oil Company Report Card The Burning Question 1860 Oil Mine Hydropulses Increase Drilling Penetration Rates |
| 07/04/99 | 3/4 |
IMCO's 1st Spring Fling safety Hanta Virus Don't be a Hero HWDP Sizes Water Shut Off in 1921 |
| 08/15/99 | 3/5 |
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 |
| 10/01/99 | 3/6 |
IMCO Raymond Mills Circulate and Weight Well Control Method Blowout On the Care and Feeding of VG Meters Message From the President |
| 11/25/99 | 3/7 |
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? |
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| 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 | ||
Date |
Volume/Number |
Articles | 01/30/00 | 4/1 |
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 |
| 03/01/00 | 4/2 |
Rotary Drilling Formation Evaluation Screen Mesh Sizes Safety Communication Responces Communication Computer Files-Zip, Save & d-Base IV |
| 04/15/00 | 4/3 |
House Keeping and Important 1st Step Safety Communication Responces Eye, Ear, and Head Protection Variable That effect Cement Plug Stability Oil Mines of Kern County |
| 06/24/00 | 4/4 |
Horizontal Tripping Practices Marsh Funnel Viscosity New Phone List New Cloride Charts Dynamic Fluid Loss Testing |
| 08/01/00 | 4/5 |
A Message to Garcia Industrial Dermatitis Safety Communication Responces New Downhole Tool Extends Coiled Tubing Reach |
| 11/01/00 | 4/6 |
Universal Fluid AKA Slag Mud Pickup Trucks Hauling Chemicals Carrying Capacity of a Drilling Fluid Fraction Conversion Table Watermellons Tank Volume for Partially Filled Horizontal Tanks |
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| 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 | ||
Date |
Volume/Number |
Articles | 02/01/01 | 5/1 |
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 |
| 04/16/01 | 5/2 |
Comments on Safety Alerts What is Valley Fever? Mud Report Accuracy What is PPM? |
| 06/01/01 | 5/3 |
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 |
| 09/15/01 | 5/4 |
Oil Base Mud vs Water Base Mud for HTHP Feast of Clay Day "n" and "K" |
| 11/01/01 | 5/5 |
pH Meters, Principles and Care Job Planning Safety Checklist Cement Additives, Sugar, CaCl2, and NaCl |
| 12/15/01 | 5/6 |
Extra Equipment Carry a Camera Mobile Phone Safety To K or not to K, That is the Question Oil, Our Untapped Energy Wealth |
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| 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 | ||
Date |
Volume/Number |
Articles | 01/31/02 | 6/1 |
The Road Not Taken MSDS New Mud Pump Increases Capacity, Minimizes Vibration Think About This One! (Monkeys) Fish! |
| 03/25/02 | 6/2 |
West Virginia Early Oil Field History Engineering Gudelines, Material Management Calcium Chloride Safety Two Centuries Meet |
| 05/01/02 | 6/3 |
Ventura Avenue Near Miss Slag Mud (Universal Fluids) Printer Safety Recall Drilling Fluid Rheology Osmonics Filtration Spectrum |
| 06/15/02 | 6/4 |
Computer Users GEO Expanding Snubbing and Stripping Ethics in the Workplace |
| 08/15/02 | 6/5 |
Drilling for Water on Mars Driving Safety, Insurance, Safety Incentive Cement Bond Logs Bit Hydraulics Optimization |
| 09/25/02 | 6/6 |
Electric Well Logging Real Time MWD With Fiber Optics Real Time Borehole Seismic The Last Step |
| 11/01/02 | 6/7 |
Cuttings Transport Safety: Lifting Casing Drilling Prospecting with Rotary Equipment |
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| 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 | ||
Date |
Volume/Number |
Articles | 01/01/03 | 7/1 |
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? |
| 02/15/03 | 7/2 |
Plate Techtonics and Mountain Building Winter Weather Safety Hazards GEO Stop Loss Computer Use |
| 04/01/03 | 7/3 |
Spring Pole Drilling Stop Loss Blending Chevy Truck Drivers Mud Performance Optimization Key Seat and Stuck Pipe |
| 05/15/03 | 7/4 |
History of Drilling Pickup Truck Driving Safety A Replacement for Desco? What's the Answer? |
| 07/01/03 | 7/5 |
Relief Well Drilling Techniques Safety Alert, Mud Pit Sampling Carbon-Fiber Drill Pipe Passes Tests New Resources Camcorder Goes Fishing |
| 08/14/03 | 7/6 |
Boston's Trinity Church Begins Renovations With Drilling of Geothermal Wells The Use and Misuse of Centrifuges Mul Thik, Organophillic Clay |
| 10/01/03 | 7/7 |
How Much is a Barrel of Petroleum? Safety Alert, Why Do I Have to Do This Meaningless Paper Work? New Technique to Combat Lost Circulation The Doctrine of Negligent Entrustment Mud Sample Labeling Section, Township and Range Natural Gas Hydrates |
| 11/25/03 | 7/8 |
Deepest Well in California Salt Water Safety New Technology Remember December Cable Tools |
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| 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 | ||
Date |
Volume/Number |
Articles | 01/01/04 | 8/1 |
Well Completion Report, Log and History, Well No. 8 Property: Wiley Safety Alert, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) Wiley Lost Circulation |
| 02/12/04 | 8/2 |
Accident Report Safety Notice, Do Not Read: Unless You Are Over 40 Metheline Blue Test Underbalanced Drilling Cuisinart Comparisons English Class An Olde Employee Turns 30 |
| 04/01/04 | 8/3 |
April Fools Day Protect Your Hearing Xanthan Polymers Use Your Powers of Observation Mixing Salts |
| 06/01/04 | 8/4 |
Acid Mud pH Why Safety Belts Other World Oil Tail Feathers Computer Courtesy Effect on annular volume of 5% and 10% washout |
| 07/15/04 | 8/5 |
Cyclorama Heat Stress Xanthan Polymers Skin Damage from oil based mud. Corrosion in Salt Water |
| 09/01/04 | 8/6 |
Cyclorama (continued) Choose Courtesy Bicycles |
| 10/15/04 | 8/7 |
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) |
| 11/23/04 | 8/8 |
How to find oil and gas Seasonal Hazards CFR - Catalyzed Friction Reducer How fast is too fast? |
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| 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 | ||
Date |
Volume/Number |
Articles | 02/25/05 | 9/1 |
GEO Gel Unplanned Events The Nature of Clays History of Kern River Field |
| 04/18/05 | 9/2 |
Defensive Driving Hazard Report by Kevin Helms Non-aqueous Drilling Fluids |
| 06/10/05 | 9/3 |
Uninterruptible Barite Supply Smoking Lime Continuous Circulation Liquid Waste Reduction Barite Sag Moving Vehicle Accidents (MVA's) |
| 10/31/05 | 9/4 |
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 |
| 12/22/05 | 9/5 |
Decision Making in the Presence of Ethical Dilemmas Lost circulation Taking Care of the Warehouse Mud Report 7.2.0 Some Common Sizes |
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| 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 | ||
Date |
Volume/Number |
Articles | 02/15/06 | 10/1 |
Bread Cast Upon the Waters Safety Glasses VG Meter Relaxation Thomas Jefferson Rules of Living Acceptable Drilled Solids Mud Retort Use of Company Vehicles |
| 04/21/06 | 10/2 |
Early Oil in California Oil Base Mud GEO Website New Shaker Screen Designation |
| 06/01/06 | 10/3 |
Oil History of the Rockies Rattlesnakes Mass, Density, Thermodynamics, and Normality |
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