Cont. Ed: Accelerated Learning Tutorial: Introduction to Petroleum Geomechanics (with focus on Unconventional Completions)
What you will learn:
- What is “Petroleum Geomechanics” and why is it important in unconventional reservoirs?
- Basic techniques to obtain rock mechanics data and earth stress
- Fracturing potential (Brittleness) of unconventional reservoirs
- Natural-Hydraulic Fracture Interaction
- Microseismic observations and Geomechanical predictions
Topics covered:
- Fundamentals of Petroleum Geomechanics
- Petroleum Geomechanics definition and its major goal
- Challenges in conventional geomechanics application to unconventional reservoirs
- Geomechanics Theories and Background
- Mechanics Review
- Rock Strength
- Measurements and calculations of rock mechanical properties
- Geo-pressure and Geo-stresses
- Pore pressure predictions
- In-situ stress estimation
- Geomechanical Applications
- Wellbore stress, stability and strengthening
- Evaluation of unconventional reservoir fracturing
Location:
SPEI Houston Training Center
10777 Westheimer Rd.
Houston
,
Texas 77042