... hand, shales deposited in the Sakesar Formation during Early Eocene are over-pressured due to compaction disequilibrium. reservoir geomechanics mud weight sakesar formation upstream oil & gas compaction disequilibrium elastic parameter reservoir characterization pore pressure chorgali...

... an integrated approach to using geomechanical analyses for determining the mud-weight window, drilling bottomhole assembly (BHA), and optimizing mud chemicals. An anisotropic Mechanical Earth Model (MEM) was built using both horizontal and vertical elastic properties to estimate an accurate stress profile...

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... was to reduce and/or eliminate losses. With the total depth being 4,151m, water depth of 3301m, surface mud weight 1.03 sg with down hole equivalent mud weight of 1.047sg due to compressibility and temperature. The main objective for using the MPD system during cementing was to ensure the EMW at both TD...

... measurements. Based on the estimation of stress parameters, stable mud weight windows and rock mechanical properties were estimated for a planned well. Reported over-gauged hole condition, caving, and stuck tool incidents are found at the depth intervals where the estimated breakout mud limit exceeds the mud...

... tool mud weight reservoir exhibition schlumberger offshore technology conference mpd technique liner application underbalanced operation conference Gerard Parayno , Schlumberger ; Scott Peacock , Petro-Hunt ; Brandon Connolly , Schlumberger , "Revitalizing...

...Abstract Abstract This paper presents a 3D numerical study on the mechanical behaviors of natural fracture under injection loading, and further proposes a practical workflow for designing a widened safe mud weight window (MWW) for drilling subsalt well sections with natural fractures...

... upstream oil & gas log analysis drilling parameter caliper metadata information operation deviation mud weight data mining correlation offshore technology conference data type OTC-26021-MS New Findings in Drilling and Wells using Big Data Analytics J. Johnston, CGG; A. Guichard, Teradata...

... wells on Bonga Main phase II presented borehole stability challenges that led to significant budget over-runs. To mitigate against this a process was put in place where well-specific borehole stability study was carried out to determine the optimum mud weight to use for drilling each hole section...

...), Pressurized Mud Cap Drilling (PMCD), Returns Flow Control (RFC-HSE), and Dual Gradient Drilling (DGD). CBHP for drilling in narrow, shifting or relatively unknown safe mud weight windows, PMCD for drilling in severe to total loss zones, RFC-HSE to augment safety systems and methods when drilling...

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... after successfully drilling the eHPHT well " Mandarin East?? to TD. It is estimated that the MPD system saved 10 days of rig time/ US $ 7.5 million in addition to the improved HSE aspects of using this system. pore pressure mpd system offshore technology conference procedure mud weight...

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... areas of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), particularly the northern GOM salt trend 1 and also in the Campos Basin of Brazil due to high temperatures and high differential stresses 2. It can generally be managed through the use of mud weights close to the overburden (90-100%) and the use of reaming to open up...

... mud weight selection well construction santos basin machine learning reservoir curve acceleration OTC 20177 Pre-Salt Santos Basin Well Construction Learning Curve Acceleration I. Alves, A. Aragão, B. Bastos, J. Falcão, and E. Fartes, Petrobras Copyright 2009, Offshore Technology Conference...

... may seem illogicalit has too often been the norm in many offshore environments as proven by the amount of money spent combating known and expected drilling trouble zones. drilling hazard liner drilling operation drilling trouble zone wellbore instability mud weight expandable liner...

...-shape bitumen, the potential to successfully drill through is high and manipulating mud weight may help. However for vertical column bitumen, overburden stress becomes dominant, increasing mud weight may not be efficient, and challenges are more significant. Those findings are consistent...