SC-05 | Shale Gas Geomechanics
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Saturday, 20 July – Sunday, 21 July 2019, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. | Denver, Colorado
Who Should Attend
Drilling, completion, reservoir and production engineers, geologists, geophysicists, geoscientists and petrophysicists with some basic knowledge of petroleum geomechanics.
Objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants will:
- Understand the importance of geomechanics in development of shale gas resources.
- Learn the theories (e.g. theories of stress, deformation and failure etc.)
- Understand the differences between geomechanics of conventional vs. unconventional rocks.
- Learn the data requirement for shale geomechanical modeling.
- Be able to design rock mechanics testing program for shale and QC the results.
- Be able to build geomechanical models and calibrate it.
- Understand the concept of safe operating mud weight window and the safest well trajectory to drill in anisotropic shale.
- Be able to determine feasibility for UBD.
- Understand the basic of hydraulic fracturing and the modelling techniques
- Understand the influence of stress regime and rock property on orientation and extension of hydraulic fractures.
- Be able to recognize the conductive natural fractures and optimize well trajectory for maximum production.
- Get familiar with machine learning applications in optimizing shale gas operations.
Course Content
This course discusses the geomechanical aspects of shale gas and how it adds value to the development of this type of reservoirs. It is an interactive course presenting in two modules: "Geomechanical Modeling" and "Geomechanics Applications for Shale Gas". In the first part, the importance of geomechanics in development of shale gas resources will be discussed. It includes constructing 1D to 3D geomechanical models using available data from off-set wells and calibrating the model using measurements and field observations.
The second part includes different applications of geomechanics related to shale gas including mechanical and chemical wellbore instability, hydraulic fracturing design and optimization, maximizing production from natural fractures, machine leaning applications are applications which will be covered in this module. The differences between geomechanical analysis in conventional and unconventional reservoirs will be explained and special attention will be paid to rock anisotropy.
Fees
Professionals: $1295
Students: $300
Limit: 40 (30 Professionals, 10 Students)
CEU:1.6
Includes:
- Printed Course Material
- A detailed course manual including all presented material
- Workbook and Excel sheets with a Case Study
- Up-to-date reference lists on all topics covered in the course
- Collection of Relevant Technical Papers
- Refreshments
Venue
Colorado Convention Center
700 14th St
Denver,
Colorado
80202
United States
Instructor