Case Study Bottomhole Circulating Temperatures - Validation CHALLENGE Verify circulating temperature modeling with experimental results. SOLUTION Compare CTEMP’s results with a technical paper’s presented experimental results. RESULTS Bottom hole and return temperatures calculated at both six and 24 hours matched within 3 deg F. As a routine part of the validation process for software calculations, CTEMP was compared with another temperature modeling software (Software B) and the results presented in “Temperature Distribution in Circulating Mud Columns” by H.H.Keller [1] . The comparison between CTEMP and software B showed very similar results, as did the model set to mimic the results presented in the paper. Comparing CTEMP with Keller’s paper required a separate model to repli

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