The course will not only be presented by showing and interpreting the material in detail, but also the participants will work together using a real data to apply all the workflow and to project their previous knowledge and experience onto the course, they also encouraged to bring their own data so that real working examples can be reviewed and interpreted

This course is designed for all Oil Industry Technical Professionals, which will cover from fundamental theoretical background to high-level real work information, techniques and workshop.

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Geo-Modelers.
• Production engineers
• Pore pressure specialist
• petrophysicists.
• Seismic Interpreters.
• Development Geologists.
• Reservoir Engineers.
• Well site geologists.
• Team Leaders & Managers.

General Introduction

• Course Objective.
• What is GEOMECHANICS?
• Why Geomechanics
• Where can Geomechanics help in the oilfield?
• Why is Geomechanics Important?
• What do we want to know from Geomechanics?
• Geomechanics Applications
• Permafrost Stability on a Pipeline
• Carbon Dioxide Emissions…
• Geomechanics and Exploration.
• Stresses above a Domal Structure.
• Drilling Geomechanics.
• Non-conventional vs. Conventional Geomechanics
• Near Wellbore Stresses.
• Hydraulic Fracturing and Geomechanics.
• Geomechanics through the Life of a Field.

Review of Stress

• Stress
• Strain
• Normal Stress
• Shear Stress.
• Shear Modulus.
• Stress-Strain Diagram
• Material Properties
• Visund Field Orientations
• Stress Rotation
• Stressed faults
• Stress Maps

 Wellbore Stability Analysis

• What is a MEM?
• Mechanical Earth Model Building
• Geomechanical Workflow
• 1D MEM work flow
• 3D MEM Work Flow

 1D Mechanical Earth Model (1D MEM) construction

• Data Set
• Overburden Stress
• Determining Overburden Stress from Density
• Pore Pressure
• Why is pore pressure important?
• Deep Water Horizon.
• Pore Pressure Concept
• Pore Pressure Prediction Model
• Compaction
• Pressure Types
• Compartmentalization and pressure

 Pore Pressure Prediction

• Pre-Drill.
• While Drilling
• Post Drilling

 Elastic Properties of the rock

• Young’s Modulus
• Poisson’s Ratio
• Bulk Modulus
• Shear Modulus
• Static and Dynamic Properties
• Rock Strength
• Angle of internal Friction.

 Horizontal Stresses

• Stress in Tectonic Regions
• Stress Profiles
• Minimum horizontal stress determination
• Wellbore Failures
• Maximum horizontal stress
• Multi-Stage Hydraulic Fracturing
• Wellbore Stability
• Mohr’s Circle and the M-C Criterion
• MEM Results

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