In-situ stresses and pore pressures existing or induced in your reservoir or caprock
can have a significant impact on petroleum exploration and development.
Applications for in-situ stress and pore pressure data include:
Hydrocarbon generation and migration studies
Fault seal assessments
Wellbore stability analyses
Sand production risk assessments
Casing deformation or failure studies
Caprock integrity assessments
Optimal well trajectory planning
Coalbed methane permeability enhancement
Fractured reservoir identification and exploitation
Setting the maximum injection pressure for gas storage or disposal
Hydraulic and acid fracture stimulation treatment design
Waterflood-induced fracturing analysis
Reservoir compaction and surface subsidence predictions
Designing subsurface waste injection operations
Evaluating production or injection-induced seismicity
Weatherford Geomechanics Services offers the following consulting services for
characterizing in-situ stresses in your reservoir or basin:
Pore pressure analysis and predictions from log and well
test data
Stress orientation analyses using borehole breakouts,
induced fractures and other diagnostics.
Design, supervision and interpretation of stress tests
(LOT, XLOT, minifracs, step-rate tests, MDT)
Basin-scale geomechanical modeling of stresses through
geological time
Modeling the origin of natural fractures
Paleo-stress analyses using fracture data
Analysis of coring-induced fractures in core
Paleomagnetic core orientation (with Vox Terrae
International)
Vertical stress determinations from density logs
Regional stress mapping
Modeling the effects of reservoir pressure depletion or
injection on in-situ stress magnitudes and orientations
