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All Days, 2007
A joint industry project (JIP) among ExxonMobil Development Company, Shell Canada Limited and BJ ... more A joint industry project (JIP) among ExxonMobil Development Company, Shell Canada Limited and BJ Services Company Canada was initiated approximately 2 years ago to extend the prior research conducted into the serviceability of coiled tubing (CT) for under-balanced sour well drilling and work-over operations, to the higher strength (90 to 110 ksi SMYS) grades. A significantly different and unique laboratory testing protocol is employed in the present JIP research. The methodology entails full-body tubing specimens that have been immersed in a sour solution of varying severity followed by testing in a bend fatigue machine to determine the low cycle fatigue performance of high strength CT materials degraded by prior exposure to the sour environment. In addition, there are several important aspects of possible CT degradation from exposure to sour wells that were not adequately investigated previously. These include the incubation times for cracks to form due to hydrogen induced cracking...
All Days, 2007
A joint industry project (JIP) among ExxonMobil Development Company, Shell Canada Limited and BJ ... more A joint industry project (JIP) among ExxonMobil Development Company, Shell Canada Limited and BJ Services Company Canada was initiated approximately 2 years ago to extend the prior research conducted into the serviceability of coiled tubing (CT) for under-balanced sour well drilling and work-over operations, to the higher strength (90 to 110 ksi SMYS) grades. A significantly different and unique laboratory testing protocol is employed in the present JIP research. The methodology entails full-body tubing specimens that have been immersed in a sour solution of varying severity followed by testing in a bend fatigue machine to determine the low cycle fatigue performance of high strength CT materials degraded by prior exposure to the sour environment. In addition, there are several important aspects of possible CT degradation from exposure to sour wells that were not adequately investigated previously. These include the incubation times for cracks to form due to hydrogen induced cracking...