Operators can avoid failure of couplings during hydraulic fracturing by using a design window when designing a casing string. Hydraulic fracturing treatments produce higher stress levels in couplings.

Once a well has been drilled, if it is to become a production well, the well must undergo completion. While drilling a well cuts through the rock formations and allows drilling engineers to reach the ...

A casing-conveyed perforating and integral flapper valve system proved effective in developing stacked pay Beluga sands in the Kenai gas field in Alaska's Cook inlet. This well completion method ...