Day 1
Introductions and the business of petroleum geomechanics
- Review of fundamentals
- Mechanical Earth Model
Day 2
Anisotropy
- Fundamentals
- Mechanical properties
- Wellbore applications
- Effects on stress
- Laboratory measurements
Day 3
Reservoir geomechanics
- Compaction
- Thermal
- Depletion effects
- Well integrity
- Plasticity
Day 4
Salt
- Mechanics
- Stress
- Wellbore stability
Drilling topics
- Bits
- Fluids
- Lost circulation
- Leakoff tests
- Wellbore strengthening
Day 5
Sonic logging and other measurements for geomechanics
Fractures, faults and earthquakes
Summary and wrap-up
