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... influence on engineering a petroleum reservoir, as outlined by [2], which include the following: Figure 1 shows an example of stress related wellbore problems associated with salt diapirism and faulting in the Mungo petroleum field, Central North Sea, UK [3]. Wellbore Design discretization...

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... porosity Wellbore Design compressibility pore collapse stress path effective stress onset loading porosity reduction Berkeley Spring envelope stress path testing deformation 1. INTRODUCTION Approximately 90% of the world's oil and gas wells are drilled in siliciclastic reservoirs [1...