Used to clean the borehole, stabilize rock, control pressures, or enhance drilling rates, drilling fluids and their circulation systems are used in all phases of a drilling operation. These systems are highly dynamic and complicated to model until now. Written by an author with over 25 years of expe[...]

Offers information on well productivity that is essential for making oil and gas field development plans. Covering topics such as fluid properties, reservoir properties, well-bore flow performance and prediction of well productivity, this work explains real world applications illustrated with exampl[...]

Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) provides two major advantages: an efficient approach for weighting maintenance objectives, and a method for specifying physical methods for achieving those objectives. In this section, the authors deal with the multi-objective condition based maintenance optimizatio[...]