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Orenburgneft: Forecasting Drilling Mud Loss through Interval Wellbore Pressure Testing

А. A. Voronin  (OJSC Orenburgneft)  AAVoronin@rosneft.ru Introduction Based on experience, in almost all of the wells drilled in the Orenbourg region there is a mud loss issue at various intervals, where the probability of mud loss occurring, during drilling, is approximately 50%. Frac gradient data which is included into the …

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