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Long and Heavy Intermediate Casing Strings: Are They Necessary — How to Design Them

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Super-Deep Continental Drilling and Deep Geophysical Sounding

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Abstract

The problems encountered in OMV’s deep and super-deep exploratory drilling are frequently caused by mechanically induced wellbore instability. Some case studies highlight the decisive role of intermediate strings in effectively casing off unstable zones.

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  1. Zentrum Gewinnung, ÖMV Aktiengesellschaft, TG-EAT, Gerasdorferstraße 151, A-1210, Vienna, Austria

    F. L. Kowatschitsch

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  1. H. F. Spörker
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  1. Geophysikalisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Hertzstr. 16, D-7500, Karlsruhe 21, Germany

    Karl Fuchs

  2. Ministry of Geology of the SSR, Bolshaya Gruzinskaya 4/6, 123812, Moscow, USSR

    Yevgeny A. Kozlovsky (Minister) (Minister)

  3. Ministry of Geology of the SSR, Bolshaya Gruzinskaya 4/6, 123812, Moscow, USSR

    Anatoly Ivanovitch Krivtsov

  4. Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Mark D. Zoback

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Spörker, H.F., Kowatschitsch, F.L. (1990). Long and Heavy Intermediate Casing Strings: Are They Necessary — How to Design Them. In: Fuchs, K., Kozlovsky, Y.A., Krivtsov, A.I., Zoback, M.D. (eds) Super-Deep Continental Drilling and Deep Geophysical Sounding. Exploration of the Deep Continental Crust. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50143-2_24

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