LIMITED OFFER
Save 50% on book bundles
Immediately download your ebook while waiting for your print delivery. No promo code is needed.
Save up to 30% on Elsevier print and eBooks with free shipping. No promo code needed.
Save up to 30% on print and eBooks.
Applied Petroleum Geomechanics provides a bridge between theory and practice as a daily use reference that contains direct industry applications. Going beyond the basic fundament… Read more
LIMITED OFFER
Immediately download your ebook while waiting for your print delivery. No promo code is needed.
Applied Petroleum Geomechanics provides a bridge between theory and practice as a daily use reference that contains direct industry applications. Going beyond the basic fundamentals of rock properties, this guide covers critical field and lab tests, along with interpretations from actual drilling operations and worldwide case studies, including abnormal formation pressures from many major petroleum basins. Rounding out with borehole stability solutions and the geomechanics surrounding hydraulic fracturing and unconventional reservoirs, this comprehensive resource gives petroleum engineers a much-needed guide on how to tackle today’s advanced oil and gas operations.
Part I: Rock Properties and Rock Mechanics
1. Stresses and Strains
2. Rock Properties and Rock Strengths
3. Rock Failure Criteria
4. Basic Rock Fracture Mechanics and Fracture Initiation
Part II: In-situ Stress
5. In-situ Stress Regimes and Stress Polygon
6. In-situ Stress Estimate
Part III: Pore Pressure and Fracture Gradient Predictions
7. Abnormal Pore Pressure Mechanisms
8. Pore Pressure Calculation and Prediction
9. Fracture Gradient Prediction
Part IV: Wellbore Strengthening and Borehole Stability
10. Wellbore Strengthening
11. Borehole Stability Solutions and Mud Weight Design
Part V: Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Geomechanics
12. Geomechanics of Hydraulic Fracturing
13. Geomechanics for Unconventional Reservoirs
14. Sanding Prediction
15. Salt Creep and Casing Failure Analysis
TT