Pressure relief process for well-drilling

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PATENT NO 4852667
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07066599

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A drill string has a bulge equipped with a system of n injection ducts connecting the interior of the string surrounding annular space and opening upwardly into the space to divert a part of the drilling fluid supplied to the bit. This arrangement makes it possible to produce below the bulge a pressure decrease H markedly greater than 10 meters of water by setting the flow of drilling fluid in the system of injection ducts at a value, expressed in m.sup.3 /s, equal to approximately: .sqroot.10H.times.S.times.s33 n, S and s being the cross-sections, expressed in m.sup.2, respectively, of a part of the portion of the annular space included between the periphery of the bulge and the drill string and of the group of n injection ducts.

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TOTAL COMPAGNIE FRANCAISE DES PETROLES5 RUE MICHEL ANGE 75781 PARIS CEDEX 16

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Dorleans, Andre M Le Perray-En-Yvelines, FR 1 5

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