Abstract: State of Stress in Southeastern Utah; #91201 (2022)

No'am Z. Dvory, Carlos Vega-Ortiz, John McLennan, and Brian McPherson

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... stress magnitudes is important for predicting the slip potential of natural fractures during hydraulic fracturing stimulation. Similarly, at least...

Mechanical Earth Modeling and Acoustic Anisotropy Improve the Hydraulic Fracturing Design in the Tanjung Field

Anzar Syed Islam, Cicik Sukma Setya Wahyu, Elvina Agustina, Pedro Artola, Irwan Zuhri, Novantri Duo Ambonito, Nur Indah Fitriani, Slamet Raharjo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to the MEM numerical representation, which characterizes the stress magnitudes and orientation, pore pressure, and formation elastic and mechanical...

Quantification of Tertiary Exhumation in the United Kingdom Southern North Sea Using Sonic Velocity Data

Richard R. Hillis

AAPG Bulletin

... in the southern North Sea was attained prior to Tertiary exhumation. The proposed magnitudes of exhumation are generally greater than those previously published...

Intraplate Stresses and Apparent Changes in Sea Level: The Basins of Northwestern Europe

Kurt Lambeck, Sierd Cloetingh, Herbert McQueen

CSPG Special Publications

... on the ICE1 Laurentide and Fennoscandian ice model of Peltier and Andrews (1976), a viscoelastic mantle of uniform viscosity (1021 Pas) and an elastic...

A New Computational Model to Predict Breakdown Pressures in Cased and Perforated Wells in Unconventional Reservoirs

Mohammed Kurdi, Hamid Roshan

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... into account the faulting stress regimes and the stress magnitudes in calculating the breakdown pressure along horizontal wells. Their model uses...

Abstracts: ANDRILL Experiences with a Wireline Hydraulic Fracturing System for Minifrac Stress Measurements in Indurated Sediments; #90173 (2015)

Douglas R. Schmitt, Terry Wilson, Richard Jarrard, Timothy Paulsen, Simona Pierdominici, Thomas Wonik, and David Handwerger

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... on the direction of the in situ stresses. Analysis of breakdown, shut in, and fracture reopening curves provided a consistent set of stress magnitudes...

Improved Exploration, Appraisal and Production Monitoring with Multi-Transient EM Solutions

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... of oil or gas in the pore spaces, in addition to residual water, changes the elastic properties and increases the resistivity of the reservoir rock...

Abstract: Improving Borehole Instability Analysis by Investigating the Impacts of Stress and Rock Anisotropy; #90224 (2015)

Qing Jia, Douglas Schmitt, Inga Moeck, and Randy Kofman

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... to both an internal pressure and a far-field stress as a function of rock elastic anisotropy. First, as a fundamental step, an anisotropic model...

S-Wave Analysis of Fracture Systems, by Bob A. Hardage and Michael V. DeAngelo, #40227 (2006).

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Estimation of the Information Capacity and Practical Significance of Relationships used in Geophysical Logging

A. I. Volkova, L. B. Dvorkin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...) and porosity (Kw): (1) P = aK π - b where a and b are constants for a given type of sediment. In setting up such empirical relationships...

Structural Geology of the Buffalo Fork Area, Northwestern Wyoming, and Its Relation to the Regional Tectonic Setting

C. A. Bengtson

Wyoming Geological Association

...) Approximate Initial Stress Distribution. If we substitute reasonable magnitudes for the terms involved in the above equation it is seen that the right...

Quantifying CretaceousCenozoic exhumation in the Otway Basin, southeastern Australia, using sonic transit time data: Implications for conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon prospectivity

David R. Tassone, Simon P. Holford, Ian R. Duddy, Paul F. Green, Richard R. Hillis

AAPG Bulletin

... estimates of net exhumation magnitudes for 110 onshore and offshore petroleum wells based on the sonic transit time analyses of Lower Cretaceous fluvial...

Modeling the Significance of Mechanical Interfaces to Fracture Propagation and Morphology … Geomechanical Models Derived from Outcrop Analysis

E.S. Petrie, J.P. Evans

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... unit thickness and associated variations in elastic moduli have on local strain and fracture distribution across locked mechanical interfaces. Studying...

Anisotropic and Nonlinear Properties of Rock Samples in the Vaca Muerta Formation: Experimental Measurements and Implications on Reservoir Geomechanics

D. Nicolas Espinoza, Agustin Sosa Massaro, Gabriel Gallardo-Giozza

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Abstract Objectives/Scope: The objective of this paper is to present measurements of elastic non-linearity and anisotropy of shale rocks from the Vaca...

Heartburn in Predicting Natural Fractures: The Effects of Differential Fracture Susceptibility in Heterogeneous Lithologies

John C. Lorenz

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... of the regional stresses imposed on it (Eshelby, 1957; Ramsay and Huber, 1983). Stress magnitudes within a lens can be amplified by the ratio of the elastic...

Damage and plastic deformation of reservoir rocks: Part 1. Damage fracturing

Seth Busetti, Kyran Mish, Ze'ev Reches

AAPG Bulletin

... corresponds to small strain magnitudes (1%). However, in most geologic structures, deformation exceeds the elastic limit, leading to the development...

Utilizing Geomechanical Model and Cleat Permeability Analysis in CBM Exploration Phase for Field Development: Case Study in CBM XŽ Area, South Sumatera Basin

Fanny Rosdiawan, David Ontosari, Andri Aspari, Pande Made Oka Iriana, Tonny S. Priantono, Andang Kustamsi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... productivity. Rock mechanical properties include: Elastic properties (Young’s modulus, shear modulus, bulk modulus, and Poisson’s ratio) and pore...

Abstracts: Three-dimensional Stress Orientations Determined by Anelastic Strain Recovery Measurements and their Comperison with Borehole Breakouts; #90173 (2015)

Weiren Lin

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... drilling projects. Unfortunately, there is no foolproof method by which magnitudes and orientations of three-dimensional in-situ stress can be reliably...

High Fidelity Microseismic Data Acquisition in the Midland Basin Wolfcamp Shale Play West Texas, USA

Robert A. Hull, Robert Meek, Brian Wright, Hallie Meighan, Austin Von der Hoya, Jake Lempges

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... microseismic data with 3D seismic attributes including elastic inversion products, well data including horizontal sonic scanners and formation micro imager...

Microseismic Activity: What Does It Really Say? Insights from Coulomb Failure Function Analysis

Pierre-Francois Roux

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., thus adding contact surface with the wellbore. In the present paper, I have computed static, poro-elastic stress changes induced by a tensile...

Relationships Between Pore Pressure, Stresses, and Present-Day Geodynamics in the Scotian Shelf, Offshore Eastern Canada

N. A. Yassir , J. S. Bell

AAPG Bulletin

..., Subsurface in-situ stress magnitudes from oil well drilling records: an example from the Venture area, offshore eastern Canada: Canadian Journal...

A Critical Evaluation of Simple Predictive Models Relating Fluid Injection to Induced Seismicity From Shale Hydraulic Fracturing and Wastewater Injection

Samin Raziperchikolaee, Srikanta Mishra

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... injection (Ellsworth, 2013). In general, earthquakes result from sudden release of stored elastic strain energy by frictional sliding along...

Outcrop-based Geomechanical Fracture Aperture and Flow Modeling: The Importance of Shear on Flow, #41606 (2015).

Kevin Bisdom, Giovanni Bertotti, Hamidreza M. Nick

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... of different reservoir conditions, including a wide range of rock properties and principal stress magnitudes. The resulting models consist of complex...

Benchmarking and Calibration of 3D Geomechanical Models; #42113 (2017)

Rene Alcalde, Ewerton Araujo

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... the producers through matrix injection. In addition to calibration of stress magnitudes and orientations, shear deformation can be used as an extra parameter...

Stress-Induced Fluid Flow in Rifted Basins: Chapter 7: DIAGENESIS AND BASIN HYDRODYNAMICS

R. T. van Balen, S. A. P. L. Cloetingh

AAPG Special Volumes

... (Cloetingh, 1991). These intraplate stresses are induced by plate tectonic forces (slab pull and ridge push) and can reach magnitudes up to several hundreds...