Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Drilling Operations and Well Design

by Bernt S. Aadnoy, Reza Looyeh

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780123855473
Publisher:	Gulf Professional Publishing
Publication date:	07/13/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	376
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Bernt Sigve Aadnøy is a Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Stavanger, specializing in all aspects of well engineering, including geomechanics. He is also an Adjunct Professor at NTNU—the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He worked for major operators in the oil industry from 1978 until 1994, when he transitioned to academia. Aadnøy has published more than 300 papers, holds 15 patents, and has authored or co-authored seven books, among them Modern Well Design, Petroleum RockMechanics, and Mechanics of Drilling. He was also one of the editors of the SPE book Advanced Drilling and Well Technology (Society of Petroleum Engineers). Aadnøy holds a BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Wyoming, an MS in control engineering from the University of Texas, and a PhD in petroleum rock mechanics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology. He was a recipient of the 1999 SPE International Drilling Engineering Award and is also a 2015 SPE/AIME Honorary Member and a 2015 SPE Distinguished Member. He was named SPE Professional of the Year 2018 in Norway.Reza Looyeh is a registered Chartered Engineer, a Fellow member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineeres (IMechE) in the UK, and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Tehran University, Iran (1989, Honors Degree), an MSc from Newcastle University, UK, in offshore engineering (1994), and PhD from Durham University, UK, in mechanical engineering (1999). He is presently a lead mechanical engineer at Chebron Pembroke Refinery in the UK, a position he has held since 2006. Dr. Looyeh has over 25 technical publications on a variety of topics and is a member of the Engineering Equipment and Material User's Association (EEMUA), Piping Systems Committee (PSC), and Materails Technology Committee (MTC), as well as an industrial advisor to IMechE for the oil and gas sector.

Table of Contents

Part One: Fundamentals of Solid MechanicsChapter 1: Stress/Strain Definitions and ComponentsChapter 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 MechanicsChapter 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 WellboreChapter 11: Wellbore Instability AnalysisChapter 12: Wellbore Instability Analysis Using Inversion TechniqueChapter 13: Wellbore Instability Analysis Using Quantitative Risk Assessment Chapter 14: The Effect of Mud Losses on Wellbore Stability Appendix A - Mechanical Properties of RocksAppendix B – The Poisson's EffectAppendix C – A Model for Stress Bridge Appendix D – Glossary of Terms

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This book, a vital tool for ensuring economic benefits in all phases of petroleum reservoir development, explains the fundamentals and applies them to oil-and gas-related drilling and well operation and completion problems