Petroleum Geomechanics (GG15)

DATE		LOCATION		FEES			REGISTRATION
Nov 8-12, 2010		Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia			Course Fee: EUR 2750 Computer Fee: EUR 350

Instructors Toby Kayes OR Abbas Khaksar Khalil Rahman

• Geomechanical Model Building
  Using drilling information, well logs and core data, you will learn how to build full Geomechanical models which include magnitude and orientation of principal Earth stresses, pore pressure and rock mechanical properties. You will learn how to design, manage and QA/QC rock mechanics core tests. You will learn to cross check your model with regional stress and rock strength databases.
  
  
• Sand Production Prediction
  You will learn how to predict sand production in injection and production wells under drawdown, depletion and following water breakthrough. You will see a real time example of oriented and selective perforation. You will see how sand production prediction helps production technologists and completion engineers to find and implement an optimum sand control and management strategy.
  
  
• Wellbore Stability Analysis
  You will learn how to analyse wellbore stability for generic and optimum well trajectories using your own calibrated geomechanical model. You will provide your own optimum safe mud weight windows using pore pressure, shear failure, tensile fracturing and permeable fracture limits, along a complete well path. Special cases such as shallow gas hazards, chemically reactive rocks, weak bedding planes, natural fractures and faults, salt domes and underbalanced or managed pressure drilling will also be addressed.
  
  
• Fracture Stimulation Optimisation
  You will learn about the geomechanical constraints of hydraulic fracture performance. Treatments can be optimised to maximise net present value (NPV) while mitigating complex issues such as undesirable fracture growth, multiple fracturing, fracture tortuosity, premature screenouts and inadequate proppant coverage. Fracturing can also be optimised for unconventional applications such as geothermal reservoirs, coal bed methane gas reservoirs, naturally fractured reservoirs, CO2 injection, produced water injection and drill cuttings injection.
  
  
• Basin and Reservoir Deformation
  You will learn about fault reactivation caused by production induced changes in Earth stresses and reservoir pressures.  Reservoir compaction and the associated effects that can cause well damage and lost production: permeability reduction, surface subsidence, fault and bedding place movement will also be covered. Geomechanical assessment of fault sealing and stability is essential for underground gas storage and CO2 sequestration projects so this area is a hot topic.