Wellbore Tubulars
Solid-expandable-tubular (SET) technology has the
potential to reduce cost, increase production, and provide access to new
reserves. The full-length paper details four case histories of SET technology
in the deepwater Sabah exploration campaign in Malaysia. The technology was
used successfully and was instrumental in achieving well objectives and
delivering a successful exploration campaign.
View a Synopsis of SPE
101222 published in JPT. 
This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains
highlights of paper SPE 101222, "Solid-Expandable-Tubular Technology: Case
Histories of Value-Adding and Enabling Applications in Sabah Deepwater
Cam-paign," by Daniel Miessner, Ochuko Erivwo, Wouter Wenting, Chris
Hopkins, and Erik Nijveld, SPE, Shell E&P, and Markus Kaschke, SPE,
Enventure Global Technology, prepared for the 2006 IADC/SPE Asia Pacific
Drilling Technology Conference and Exhibition, Bangkok, Thailand, 13-15
November.