Advanced Specialist Petroleum GeoMechanics

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09 Nov 2025 Dubai, UAE $ 3,900 Register

Advanced Specialist Petroleum GeoMechanics

Introduction

This course builds on the Fundamentals of Petroleum Geomechanics course and starts to investigate geomechanics beyond simple elastic, isotropic behaviour. After a brief review of fundamental concepts, earth stresses, the course looks at the impact of reversible and non-reversible geomechanical behaviour on drilling, stimulation, sand production and injection looking specifically at thermal, depletion and compaction effects. The course then investigates anisotropy, its nature and effect on geomechanics, and its significance and influence on well construction and field development. The course also covers salt, introducing the mechanics of salt, short term and long term behaviour, as well as the impact on drilling both sub-salt and pre-salt.

Objectives

    At the end of this course participants will recognize the differences and significance of reversible and non-reversible in petroleum applications of geomechanics both in the wellbore and reservoir. They will under-stand the importance of anisotropic behaviour in rocks, know the methods used to measure anisotropy and the effect on well construction and field development. They will also be know about the short and long term mechanical behaviour of salt, the effect of salt on the local stress state and what needs to be considered when developing fields either created by or accessed through salt.

Training Methodology

The course will include a number of exercises aimed at enhancing each participant's capability to conduct various oil field production problems. A number of short films and animated exercises will be presented during the course to enhance the participants’ knowledge about the oil & gas field operations.

Who Should Attend?

Geologists, geophysicists, geomechanics engineers, drilling engineers, production engineers, completion engineers, reservoir engineers, exploration supervisors and managers concerned with the geomechanics challenges of field development.

Course Outline

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

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