SIMULIA Community News May/June 2012 www.3ds.com/simulia Energy Spotlight Simulating the Physical Challenges of "Unconventional Oil" Abaqus accurately predicts realistic performance of well designs in challenging oilfield applications C ommercial oil drilling has become far more complicated since the day in 1859 when Edwin Drake struck oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania at a depth of 69 1/2 feet. Yet even back then, drilling faced technical

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