July 28, 2017


Description

There are number of challenges in unconventional reservoir completions that will benefit from geomechanical considerations. Examples include complex hydraulic fracture development in naturally fractured reservoir, altered in situ stresses due to production, and reservoir re-stimulation, and coupled thermo-poro-mechanics processes.  Recognizing the critical need to understand fundamental mechanisms involved in unconventional reservoir development, the “Introduction to Petroleum Geomechanics” one day course with focus on unconventional reservoir completions is offered.

This is the second time that the course is being offered. The package offers:

  1. Petroleum Geomechanics definition and its major goal
  2. Introduction to complexities of well fracturing
  3. Mechanics review
    • Stress and strain
    • Pore pressure
      • Effective stress
  1. Rock behavior under stress
    • Elastic
      • Static behavior
      • Dynamic behavior
      • Anisotropy
    • Plastic
    • Failure
      • Shear failure
      • Compaction failure
    • Ductile-brittle prediction
  2. Fracture mechanics
    • Griffith Crack and Stress Concentration
    • 3 Modes of Failure
      • Mode I
        • Analysis
        • Stress Pattern
        • Growth
      • Mode II & III
        • Analysis: Mohr-Coulomb failure
      • A hydraulic fracture failure model
  1. Measurements and Calculations of Rock Mechanical Properties
    • Core Drilling, Selection and Preparation for Rock Mechanics Testing
    • Rock Mechanics Tests
      • Compressive strength test
        • (unconfined, triaxial, multi-stage)
      • Direct shear strength test (Shear Box )
      • Indirect tensile strength test
    • Index Tests for Rock Strength
    • Rock properties from log measurements
  2. Pore Pressure Predictions
    • Pore pressure definition and prediction importance
    • Sources of pore pressure
    • Pore pressure estimation
  3. In-situ Stress Measurements/Estimations
    • Importance of stress data
    • Geo-stress direction and magnitude
    • Methods to measure/estimate geo-stress
      • Vertical stress
      • Minimum horizontal stress
        • DFIT test
        • Estimation methods
      • Maximum horizontal stress
        • Fracturing tests (Mini-Frac, DFIT)
        • Drilling features (induced tensile fracture or breakouts)
        • Estimation based on frictional theory
  1. Wellbore stress and stability
    • Introduction; Drilling Problems & Cost
      • Pipe Stuck and Lost Circulation
    • Methods to predict wellbore instability
      • Mathematical model (analytical and numerical methods)
  1. Evaluation of Reservoir Fracturing
    • Hydraulic Fracturing Introduction
    • Hydraulic Fracturing Operation
      • Review: What we know (“for sure”) about hydraulic fracturing
      • Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation Operations
        • Design
        • Field Deployment
      • A Moment on the Traditional Analysis of Stimulation Response(s) and Microseismic Imaging
    • Physical Simulation to Understand Key Parameters that Controls Hydraulic Fracture Geometry

Featured Speakers

Speaker Dr. Reza Safari

Dr. Reza Safari is a Geomechanics Advisor at Weatherford Geomechanics Research, Development, and Engineering. Dr. Safari’s current focus is on geomechanical modeling development of unconventional reservoir stimulation and wellbore mechanics. He has co-authored more than 20 publications in hydraulic fracturing, water-less fracturing, hydraulic/natural fracture interactions, and wellbore strengthening. Safari holds …

Dr. Reza Safari is a Geomechanics Advisor at Weatherford Geomechanics Research, Development, and Engineering. Dr. Safari’s current focus is on geomechanical modeling development of unconventional reservoir stimulation and wellbore mechanics. He has co-authored more than 20 publications in hydraulic fracturing, water-less fracturing, hydraulic/natural fracture interactions, and wellbore strengthening. Safari holds a Ph.D. degree in petroleum engineering(petroleum geomechanics) from Texas A&M University.

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Organizer

Sunil Lakshminarayanan

E-mail: sunil_lakshminarayanan@oxy.com


Phone: 281-248-1443


 


Date and Time

Fri, July 28, 2017

8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
(GMT-0500) US/Central

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Location

SPEI Houston Training Center

10777 Westheimer Rd.
Houston, Texas 77042
United States

Phone: (713) 457-6815
Fax: (713) 779-4216