
Petroleum Rock Mechanics
Drilling Operations and Well Design
- 376 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Petroleum Rock Mechanics
Drilling Operations and Well Design
About this book
Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Drilling Operations and Well Design covers the fundamentals of solid mechanics and petroleum rock mechanics and their application to oil and gas-related drilling operations and well design. More specifically, it examines the role of formation, strength of rock materials, and wellbore mechanics, along with the impact of in-situ stress changes on wellbore and borehole behavior. Practical examples with solutions and a comprehensive glossary of terminologies are provided. Equations are incorporated into well-known failure criteria to predict stresses and to analyze a range of failure scenarios throughout drilling, well operation, and well completion processes. The book also discusses stress and strain components, principal and deviatoric stresses and strains, materials behavior, the theories of elasticity and inelasticity, probabilistic analysis of stress data, the tensile and shear strength of rocks, wellbore stability, and fracture and collapse behavior for both single and multi-lateral wells. Both inexperienced university students and experienced engineers will find this book extremely useful.- Clearly applies rock mechanics to on and off shore oil and gas drilling- Step by Step approach to the analyze wellbore instabilities- Provides worked out examples with solutions to everyday problems
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Table of Contents
- Front matter
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- About the authors
- List of symbols
- Chapter 1. Stress/Strain Definitions and Components
- Chapter 2. Stress and Strain Transformation
- Chapter 3. Principal and Deviatoric Stresses and Strains
- Chapter 4. Theory of Elasticity
- Chapter 5. Failure Criteria
- Chapter 6. Introduction to Petroleum Rock Mechanics
- Chapter 7. Porous Rocks and Effective Stresses
- Chapter 8. In-Situ Stress
- Chapter 9. Rock Strength and Rock Failure
- Chapter 10. Stresses Around a Wellbore
- Chapter 11. Wellbore Instability Analysis
- Chapter 12. Wellbore Instability Analysis Using Inversion Technique
- Chapter 13. Wellbore Instability Analysis Using Quantitative Risk Assessment
- Chapter 14. The Effect of Mud Losses on Wellbore Stability
- References
- Appendix A. Mechanical Properties of Rocks
- Appendix B. The Poisson's Ratio Effect
- Appendix C. Model for the Stress Bridge
- Appendix D. Glossary Of Terms
- Index