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Gas and Liquid Injection Rates 209

SUMMARY
This chapter described the principle of selecting the gas and liquid
injection rates for underbalanced drilling operations. The concept of the
gas‒liquid rate window was explained and the procedure for constructing
the GLRW was illustrated.

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