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Petroleum Rock Mechanics
Drilling Operations and Well Design

Helps solve day-to-day challenges in wellbore stability, particularly in shale activity

Bernt S. Aadnoy (Author), Reza Looyeh (Author)

9780128159033, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 18 June 2019

460 pages, 260 illustrations
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.9 cm, 0.7 kg

Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Drilling Operations and Well Design, Second Edition, keeps petroleum and drilling engineers centrally focused on the basic fundamentals surrounding geomechanics, while also keeping them up-to-speed on the latest issues and practical problems. Updated with new chapters on operations surrounding shale oil, shale gas, and hydraulic fracturing, and with new sections on in-situ stress, drilling design of optimal mud weight, and wellbore instability analysis, this book is an ideal resource. By creating a link between theory with practical problems, this updated edition continues to provide the most recent research and fundamentals critical to today’s drilling operations.

Part 1: Fundamentals of Solid Mechanics1. Stress/Strain Definitions and Components2. Stress and Strain Transformation3. Principal and Deviatoric Stresses and Strains4. Theory of Elasticity5. Failure Criteria

Part II: Petroleum Rock Mechanics6. Introduction to Petroleum Rock Mechanics7. Porous Rocks and Effective Stresses8. In Situ Stress9. Rock Strength and Rock Failure10. Drilling Design and Selection of Optimal Mud Weight11. Stresses Around a Wellbore12. Wellbore Instability Analysis13. Wellbore Instability Analysis Using Inversion Technique14. Wellbore Instability Analysis Using Quantitative Risk Assessment15. The Effect of Mud Losses on Wellbore Stability16. Shale Oil, Shale Gas, and Hydraulic Fracturing

AppendixA. Mechanical Properties of RocksB. The Poisson’s Ratio EffectC. Model for the Stress BridgeD. Glossary of Terms

Subject Areas: Petroleum technology [THFP], Fossil fuel technologies [THF]

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