Upon completion of the course, participants will:

• Understand the importance of geomechanics and its applications in oil and gas industry.
• Learn the theory of rock mechanics (e.g. theories of stress and strain, rock deformation and failure etc.)
• Learn the data requrement for geomechanical modeling.
• Be able to design rock mechancs testing program and QC the results
• Be able to bulid geomechanical models using Excel sheet (including stresses and rock properties calculations).
• Be able to define safe operating mud weight window.
• Be able to find the safest well trajectory to drill by generating polar plots. 
• Understand the effect of rock anisotropy.
• Be able to verify and calibrate wellbore models.
• Learn about wellsite wellbore instability identification

Module I: Geomechanical Modeling and the Applications

Introduction to Geomechanics

• Overview and history
• Importance
• Geomechanical model
• Anderson faulting theory and stress regimes
  
  

Theories and Background

• Principles of stress and strain
• Rock deformation and mechanical behavior models
• Rock failure mechanisms and criteria
  
  

Overview of Petroleum Applications

• Sand production prediction
• Hydraulic fracturing
• Fault seal analysis
• Production optimization from natural fractures
• Fractured reservoir modeling
• Compaction and subsidence
• Casing collapse and shear
• Salt bodies modeling
• Multi lateral junctions
  
  

Geomechanical Modeling

• Concepts
• 1D to 3D models
• Rock property modeling
• Pore pressure prediction
• Stress modeling
  
  

Module II: Wellbore Stability Analysis 

Introduction and definitions

• What is wellbore instability
• Wellbore instability cost for industry
• Factors affecting wellbore stability
• General modes of instability
• Yielded zone and borehole breakouts

• How to control borehole breakouts
• Instability consequences
  
  

Analysis and outcomes

• Stability models- 3D linear elastic models
• - Poroelastic models
• - 2D linear elastic models
• - Elastoplastic models
• Prediction of yield zone dimensions around the borehole
• Calculation of collapse gradient
• Calculation of fracture gradients
• Safe operating mud weight window
• Casing and mud design
• Wellbore stability for deviated and horizontal wells
• Well trajectory optimization
  
  

Special cases

• Accounting for hydraulic communication effects
• Accounting for weak bedding planes
• Time-dependent wellbore instability
• Chemical wellbore instability
• Wellbore stability in fractured formations
• Wellbore stability in salt bodies
• Identifying wellbore instability on the rig
• Wellbore stability for UBD
• Field examples 

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.