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This course provides an overview of petroleum geomechanics and its applications for development of unconventional plays. It is presented in three sections: (i) fundamentals of petroleum geomechanics, (ii) geomechanical characterization, stress modeling and building mechanical earth models, and (iii) geomechanical modeling for unconventional plays.
Target Audience
Geoscientists, petrophysicists, engineers, or anyone involved in unconventional reservoir development.
You Will Learn
- Essentials of rock mechanics concepts such as stress and strain tensors, rock constitutive models, and failure criteria
- To review lab measurement reports to understand mechanical rock properties and to understand the application of this data to case studies
- The key geomechanical parameters of shales
- The origins of pore pressure generation and pressure prediction and measurement methods for unconventional plays
- The processes of multi-source data collection (from cores, logs, lab and field tests, drilling, seismic, microseismic, etc.) for characterization of rock properties and in-situ stresses and building Mechanical Earth Models (MEMs)
- To analyze and interpret the geomechanical aspects of image logs, mini-frac and DFIT tests, and drilling and completion reports
- To use different methodologies to measure/estimate in-situ stress components
- To apply geomechanical modeling to unconventional plays
- Practical approaches for drilling and mud window design
- The basic principles of hydraulic fracture design
- To characterize natural fractures and use discrete fracture network (DFN) modeling to account for their influence on hydraulic fracturing operations
- About modeling and monitoring of fault reactivation and seismicity induced by hydraulic fracturing and waste fluid disposal
- The application of data analytics and machine learning for optimization of drilling, completion, and production in unconventional plays