Reservoir Geomechanics
Cambridge University Press, 4/1/2010
EAN 9780521146197, ISBN10: 0521146194
Paperback, 502 pages, 24.6 x 17.5 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
This interdisciplinary book encompasses the fields of rock mechanics, structural geology and petroleum engineering to address a wide range of geomechanical problems that arise during the exploitation of oil and gas reservoirs. It considers key practical issues such as prediction of pore pressure, estimation of hydrocarbon column heights and fault seal potential, determination of optimally stable well trajectories, casing set points and mud weights, changes in reservoir performance during depletion, and production-induced faulting and subsidence. The book establishes the basic principles involved before introducing practical measurement and experimental techniques to improve recovery and reduce exploitation costs. It illustrates their successful application through case studies taken from oil and gas fields around the world. This book is a practical reference for geoscientists and engineers in the petroleum and geothermal industries, and for research scientists interested in stress measurements and their application to problems of faulting and fluid flow in the crust.
Foreword
Part I. Basic Principles
1. The tectonic stress field
2. Pore pressure at depth in sedimentary basins
3. Basic constitutive laws
4. Rock failure in compression, tension and shear
5. Fractures and faults in three dimensions
Part II. Measuring Stress Orientation and Magnitude
6. Compressive and tensile failures in vertical wells
7. Determination of S3 from minifracs and extended leak-off tests and constraining the magnitude of SHmax from wellbore failures in vertical wells
8. Wellbore failure and stress determination in deviated wells
9. Stress fields – from tectonic plates to reservoirs around the world
Part III. Applications
10. Minimizing wellbore instability
11. Critically stressed faults and fluid flow
12. Reservoir depletion
References
Index.
'A very comprehensive and complete book spanning all the aspects of stress within the accessible Earth. It is particularly useful in the fields of oil industry, geothermics and seismic hazard.' Tectonophysics