Summary Stuck drillpipe accounts for losses of millions of dollars each year in the petroleum industry. Major efforts have been made to determine the causes of stuck pipe and to outline operating practices that will minimize the occurrence of the problem. No previously published efforts, however, have attempted to predict the chances of the pipe sticking on the basis of existing conditions. An analytic technique was therefore developed that evaluates 20 common drilling parameters to determine the probability of the pipe sticking in a particular well.
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Hempkins et al. (1987) studied this question.