... the oil-water or water-gas transition zone water saturation. Although dynamic fluid flow is occurring from the formation during the drilling process, the circulating drilling fluids are in continual contact with the formation face. At the low initial liquid saturations which exist in these reservoirs...

.../closed loop control while drilling systems. This platform provides a powerful information system interface through which a multitude of operational data is channeled to a single operator for real-time qualitative and quantitative analyses of the drilling process. Combined with a time-window display...