Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Drilling Operations and Well Design

Drilling and production operations are continuing to evolve in technology and engineering challenges, especially due to more unconventional oil and gas field development yet too many answers are scattered throughout various journals and societies. Petroleum Rock Mechanics, Second Edition keeps petroleum and drilling engineers centrally focused on the basic fundamentals around geomechanics while getting them up to speed on the latest issues and practical problems they will face on day one. Updated with new chapters on today’s operations surrounding shale oil, shale gas, and hydraulic fracturing, engineers can also find updates on in-situ stress, drilling design of optimal mud weight, and wellbore instability analysis. Creating a link between theory with practical problems, Petroleum Rock Mechanics, Second Edition continues to provide the most recent research as well as fundamentals critical to today’s drilling operations.

Grasp understanding and techniques to analyze and solve drilling challenges, in particular wellbore instability analysisStay grounded on rock mechanic fundamentals while learning new concepts around sand production and hydraulic fracturing operationsGain practicality from new case studies and example problems to practice

Part 1: Fundamentals of Solid Mechanics 1. Stress/Strain Definitions and Components 2. Stress and Strain Transformation 3. Principal and Deviatoric Stresses and Strains 4. Theory of Elasticity 5. Failure Criteria Part II: Petroleum Rock Mechanics 6. Introduction to Petroleum Rock Mechanics 7. Porous Rocks and Effective Stresses 8. In Situ Stress 9. Rock Strength and Rock Failure 10. Drilling Design and Selection of Optimal Mud Weight 11. Stresses Around a Wellbore 12. Wellbore Instability Analysis 13. Wellbore Instability Analysis Using Inversion Technique 14. Wellbore Instability Analysis Using Quantitative Risk Assessment 15. The Effect of Mud Losses on Wellbore Stability 16. Shale Oil, Shale Gas, and Hydraulic Fracturing Appendix A. Mechanical Properties of Rocks B. The Poisson's Ratio Effect C. Model for the Stress Bridge D. Glossary of Terms