
Petroleum Rock Mechanics
Drilling Operations and Well Design
Resources
Description
Key Features
- Helps readers grasp the techniques needed to analyze and solve drilling challenges, in particular wellbore instability analysis
- Teaches rock mechanic fundamentals and presents new concepts surrounding sand production and hydraulic fracturing operations
- Includes new case studies and sample problems to practice
Readership
Petroleum engineers; drilling engineers; production engineers; geomechanical engineers; graduate level petroleum engineering students
Table of Contents
Part 1: Fundamentals of Solid Mechanics
1. Stress/Strain Definitions and Components
2. Stress and Strain Transformation
3. Principal and Deviatoric Stresses and Strains
4. Theory of Elasticity
5. Failure CriteriaPart II: Petroleum Rock Mechanics
6. Introduction to Petroleum Rock Mechanics
7. Porous Rocks and Effective Stresses
8. In Situ Stress
9. Rock Strength and Rock Failure
10. Drilling Design and Selection of Optimal Mud Weight
11. Stresses Around a Wellbore
12. Wellbore Instability Analysis
13. Wellbore Instability Analysis Using Inversion Technique
14. Wellbore Instability Analysis Using Quantitative Risk Assessment
15. The Effect of Mud Losses on Wellbore Stability
16. Shale Oil, Shale Gas, and Hydraulic FracturingAppendix
A. Mechanical Properties of Rocks
B. The Poisson’s Ratio Effect
C. Model for the Stress Bridge
D. Glossary of Terms
Product details
- No. of pages: 460
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Gulf Professional Publishing 2019
- Published: June 15, 2019
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128159033
- eBook ISBN: 9780128159040