Advanced Petroleum Geomechanics

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