Reservoir Geomechanics with Petrel

Fundamentals of reservoir geomechanics

1. Value of full-field geomechanics in the petroleum industry
2. Review of geomechanics concepts and how these are applied in the petroleum industry; understand the concepts of stress, strain, effective stress, principals stresses, elasticity , plasticity and failure
3. Geomechanics property modeling; use of wireline derived rock mechanical properties together with seismic attributes and geostatistical methods for 3D property modeling
4. Experimental rock mechanics for reservoir geomechanics studies; Review of standard rock mechanics testing and introduction to laboratory measurements specific to reservoir geomechanics applications; understanding of test results and ability to analyze and evaluate laboratory reports

Reservoir geomechanics processes and introduction to PetrelRG

1. Understand the mechanics of depletion, stress transfer between reservoir and surrounding formations, theory and compaction and subsidence, importance of stress path, thermal effect, impact of faults and fractures; Understand the importance and stress initialization to model in-situ stress state
2. Introduction to reservoir Geomechanics modeling with PetrelRG
3. Building reservoir geomechanics grids, design geomechanics materials and perform property modeling and property population

Geomechanical property modeling and stress initialization with PetrelRG

1. Case study: geomechanics property modeling using seismic inversion as input
2. Discontinuities (faults and fractures) in reservoir geomechanics models
3. Apply initial pressure, temperature and saturation to reservoir geomechanics models, define boundary conditions and perform stress initialization

Coupled reservoir Geomechanics simulation with PetrelRG 

1. Case study: practical aspects of in-situ stress calibration
2. Define and submit simulation cases with coupled reservoir simulator
3. Perform 1-way and 2-way coupled simulations
4. Basic Eclipse knowledge important for coupled reservoir geomechanics modeling and introduction to history matching assisted by 2-way reservoir geomechanics modeling 

Reservoir geomechanics model results analysis with PetrelRG 

1. Results analysis; import coupled simulator results to PetrelRG; stress charting and results QC
2. Application of reservoir geomechanics to reservoir management; utilization of reservoir geomechanics models to examine cap-rock integrity and casing deformation in depleting reservoirs
3. Post processing case studies – application of reservoir geomechanics model results to common reservoir management tasks; 3D wellbore stability planning, hydraulic fracture design, geomechanics-driven permeability updating