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Abstract: WELL CONTROL OPERATIONS are critical in protecting the safety of the employees and the environment. Loss of well control incidents (blowouts) are known to be expensive and cause delays in bringing important production online. Blowouts may also lead to fires, explosions, injuries, property damage and pollution. It is important for industry to minimize the occurrence of these events by implementing safety programs and procedures that will prevent and reduce the severity of blowouts during drilling operations.

Abstract: ONE CAN TRACE the history of tight gas sand exploitation to the 1950 s and ’60 s with the development of hydraulic fracture treatment technology. In the 1960 s, natural gas prices and demand were low, thus very few tight gas plays were economic to develop. However, in the 1970 s, increased product prices and improved technology for fracture fluids, propping agents and pumping systems led to numerous tight gas plays in South Texas, East Texas, the Mid-Continent and the Rocky Mountains. In the 1980 s and ’90 s, research funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE), the Gas Research Institute (GRI), a few major producing companies and the service companies led to significant improvements in formation evaluation, fracture fluids and fracture monitoring and a better understanding of hydraulic fracturing with the development of 3D and pseudo3D fracture propagation models.

Abstract: Weatherford's new M7875 RCD Docking Station is prepared for constant bottomhole pressure (CBHP) MPD in the Gulf of Mexico from a jackup rig. The CBHP form of MPD applies to prospects with narrow or unknown drilling windows, slow ROP, ballooning/ breathing and well control risks.