Cuttings transport model shown to decrease certain drilling risks

摘要

A first example has shown that a TCTM can be used to make important decisions in order to decrease the risk levels in complex drilling operations when the possible conditions are not very intuitive. A second example has shown that the transport of cuttings is a non-holonomic process and that it is important to track the whole history of the cuttings transport to evaluate the actual downhole conditions.