In recent years, environmentally-assisted cracking has caused failures of many Grade P110 couplings during fracturing operations, causing enormous economic loss to the oil and gas industry. Factors ...

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 ...

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