Effective Drilling-Waste Management Reduces Well-Construction Costs

The increasing amount of environmental legislation affecting drilling operations has resulted in a rapid increase in drilling-waste-management spending. While traditional perception is that this increased spending adds to well-construction costs, many technologies now available are cost-effective when the entire well-construction cost is evaluated. The full-length paper reviews deployment of both new and traditional drilling-waste-management technologies and demonstrates that correct application of these technologies can result in a reduction in well-construction costs.

Synopsis of SPE 96775

This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 96775, "Drilling-Waste Management: Case Histories Demonstrate That Effective Drilling-Waste Management Can Reduce Overall Well-Construction Costs," by K. Browning, SPE, and S. Seaton, SPE, Halliburton Fluid Systems, prepared for the 2005 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Dallas, 9-12 October.

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