Petroleum Rock Mechanics. Drilling Operations and Well Design
Description: Rock mechanics is a vital decision-making tool for insuring economic benefits in all phases of
petroleum reservoir development. Petroleum Rock Mechanics introduces the fundamentals of solid
mechanics and applies them to oil and gas related drilling and well operation and completion
problems.
The book's two part treatment starts with a clear and rigorous exposition of theory, followed by self
-contained chapters concerning applications for understanding the stress, strain, and failure
mechanics of rocks and their response to earth stresses. The role of rock mechanics in drilling
operations and design are highlighted throughout. Details of practical in-situ stress changes and
how they impact on wellbore and borehole behaviour are also included, making this the one of most
unique books on the subject.
- 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
Contents: Preface
About The Authors
List of Symbols
Part One: Fundamentals of Solid Mechanics
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
Part Two - Petroleum Rock Mechanics
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
Appendix A - Mechanical properties of rocks
Appendix B - The poisson's effect
Appendix C - A model for stress bridge
Appendix D - Glossary of terms
Subject Index
