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Petroleum Rock Mechanics
1st Edition
Drilling Operations and Well Design
Description
Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Drilling Operations and Well Design covers the fundamentals of solid mechanics and petroleum rock mechanics and their application to oil and gas-related drilling operations and well design. More specifically, it examines the role of formation, strength of rock materials, and wellbore mechanics, along with the impact of in-situ stress changes on wellbore and borehole behavior. Practical examples with solutions and a comprehensive glossary of terminologies are provided. Equations are incorporated into well-known failure criteria to predict stresses and to analyze a range of failure scenarios throughout drilling, well operation, and well completion processes. The book also discusses stress and strain components, principal and deviatoric stresses and strains, materials behavior, the theories of elasticity and inelasticity, probabilistic analysis of stress data, the tensile and shear strength of rocks, wellbore stability, and fracture and collapse behavior for both single and multi-lateral wells. Both inexperienced university students and experienced engineers will find this book extremely useful.
Key Features
- Clearly applies rock mechanics to on and off shore oil and gas drilling
- Step by Step approach to the analyze wellbore instabilities
- Provides worked out examples with solutions to everyday problems
Readership
Reservoir Engineers, Production Engineer, Drilling Engineers, Exploration Geophysicists
Table of Contents
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the authors
List of symbols
Chapter 1. Stress/Strain Definitions and Components
1.1. General concept
1.2. Definition of stress
1.3. Stress components
1.4. Definition of strain
1.5. Strain components
Chapter 2. Stress and Strain Transformation
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Transformation principles
2.3. Two-dimensional stress transformation
2.4. Stress transformation in space
2.5. Tensor of stress components
2.6. Strain transformation in space
Chapter 3. Principal and Deviatoric Stresses and Strains
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Principal stresses
3.3. Average and deviatoric stresses
3.4. General interpretation of principal stresses
3.5. Two-dimensional stress analysis
3.6. Properties of strain
Chapter 4. Theory of Elasticity
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Materials behavior
4.3. Hooke's law
4.4. Hooke's law in shear
4.5. Analysis of structures
4.6. Theory of inelasticity
4.7. Constitutive relation for rocks
Chapter 5. Failure Criteria
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Failure criteria for rock materials
5.3. The von mises failure criterion
5.4. Mohr-coulomb failure criterion
5.5. The griffith failure criterion
5.6. Hoek-brown failure criterion
5.7. Druker-prager failure criterion
5.8. Mogi-coulomb failure criterion
Chapter 6. Introduction to Petroleum Rock Mechanics
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Definition and classification of rocks
6.3. Petroleum rock mechanics
6.4. Why study stress in rocks?
6.5. Units of measurement
Chapter 7. Porous Rocks and Effective Stresses
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Anisotropy and inhomogeneity
7.3. Anisot
Details
- No. of pages:
- 376
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © 2012
- Published:
- 26th May 2011
- Imprint:
- Gulf Professional Publishing
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780123855473
- Print ISBN:
- 9780123855466
About the authors
Bernt Aadnoy
Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
Affiliations and Expertise
Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
Reza Looyeh
Affiliations and Expertise
Lead Engineer, Chevron Limited, Pembroke Refinery, UK