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Petroleum Rock Mechanics

Drilling Operations and Well Design

  • 2nd Edition - June 15, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Bernt S. Aadnoy, Reza Looyeh
  • Language: English

Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Drilling Operations and Well Design, Second Edition, keeps petroleum and drilling engineers centrally focused on the basic fundamentals surrounding geom… Read more

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Description

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.

Key features

  • Helps readers grasp the techniques needed to analyze and solve drilling challenges, in particular wellbore instability analysis
  • Teaches rock mechanic fundamentals and presents new concepts surrounding sand production and hydraulic fracturing operations
  • Includes new case studies and sample problems to practice

Readership

Petroleum engineers; drilling engineers; production engineers; geomechanical engineers; graduate level petroleum engineering students

Table of contents

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

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 18, 2019
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Bernt S. Aadnoy

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 Rock Mechanics, 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.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Petroleum Engineering, University of Stavanger, Norway

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Reza Looyeh

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Lead Engineer, Chevron Limited, Pembroke Refinery, UK

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