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hostile environment

1. n. []

A particularly difficult set of well conditions that may detrimentally affect steel, elastomers, mud additives, electronics, or tools and tool components. Such conditions typically include excessive temperatures, the presence of acid gases (H2S, CO2), chlorides, high pressures and, more recently, extreme measured depths.

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