... Abstract In this paper, we present the first field application of a novel method to estimate in-situ rock stress. This technique, which we have baptized "PKM (Pestman-Kenter-vanMunster) method", uses Acoustic Emission-controlled polyaxial reloading of core in the laboratory. The method works...

... laser high power laser drilling mineralogy institute society temperature induced young shale research institute application mechanical property spe isrm 78154 gas research institute Introduction Reservoir rock strength and mechanical (elastic) properties have applications in many...

... Abstract This paper reports applications of the D3 single cutter model developed by Dagrain (2001) [ 1 , 2 ] at University of Minnesota (UMN), based on the original phenomenological cutting model developed by Detournay and Defourny in 1992 [ 3 ]. This paper comes to present the continuity...

... extensively used in the petroleum industry to evaluate and solve a wide range of analytical problems in reservoir engineering and the geosciences. In this paper, the application of these techniques to a number of generalized geomechanical problems will be illustrated. A Monte Carlo simulation enables the user...

... of conservatism in their prediction of sanding in high pressure wells. We provide a plausible explanation for this behavior which is attributed to the underlying proposition that sand production occurs when sand fails. While this supposition is used in all applications of such models, in deep, high stress...

... successfully used to determine fractures in numerous produced water reinjection wells and the method is reported to work in both poorly consolidated and more consolidated formations under produced water re-injection applications. 21 , 22 The HIT test field procedure consists of initiating free...