Online Live Streaming Course

November 17 to 21, 2025

Duración : 20 horas

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Drillers, drilling engineers, operation geologists, geophysicists and petroleum engineers who want to learn how geomechanical anisotropic properties and stresses affect the stability and integrity of wellbores from the design phase, to the drilling and hydraulic stimulation phases of well construction in unconventional reservoirs.

OBJECTIVES:

This workshop presents the concepts and practical applications of geomechanical theory to well construction and stimulation challenges in unconventional reservoirs.

BENEFITS:

You will learn how to apply the basic theory of practical petroleum geomechanics to the challenges of evaluating and designing a shale gas completion strategy.

You will understand how to mitigate against the unconventional hazards to horizontal drilling in shale-gas reservoirs.

You will be able to capitalize on your understanding of in-situ stress and rock property anisotropy to optimize hydraulic fracture and completion design.

Course content includes:

• Essential rock mechanics – the concepts of in-situ earth stresses, pore pressure and rock elastic and failure properties – constructing a rock mechanical earth model from commonly acquired drilling, laboratory test and formation evaluation data
• What is anisotropy and how do the sedimentological and mineralogical characteristics of shale reservoirs exhibit anisotropy from micro- to macro-scale
• An introduction to the necessary theoretical background required to model the behaviour of real rock that is transversely isotropic, layered and fractured
• Recommended data acquisition and analysis techniques to effectively evaluate the anisotropic geomechanical properties of shale reservoirs
• Geomechanical aspects of hydraulic fracture stimulation in laminated and/or naturally fractured formations – discussion of fracture geometry, frac fluids, proppants and hydraulic fracture monitoring techniques