Reservoir Geomechanics Author: Mark D. Zoback | Language: English | ISBN:
0521770696 | Format: EPUB
Reservoir Geomechanics Description
This interdisciplinary book encompasses the fields of rock mechanics, structural geology and petroleum engineering to address a wide range of geomechanical problems that arise during the exploitation of oil and gas reservoirs. It considers key practical issues such as prediction of pore pressure, estimation of hydrocarbon column heights and fault seal potential, determination of optimally stable well trajectories, casing set points and mud weights, changes in reservoir performance during depletion, and production-induced faulting and subsidence. The book establishes the basic principles involved before introducing practical measurement and experimental techniques to improve recovery and reduce exploitation costs. It illustrates their successful application through case studies taken from oil and gas fields around the world. This book is a practical reference for geoscientists and engineers in the petroleum and geothermal industries, and for research scientists interested in stress measurements and their application to problems of faulting and fluid flow in the crust.
- Hardcover: 464 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (September 10, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521770696
- ISBN-13: 978-0521770699
- Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
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I will not claim to have read this entire book from cover to cover, but I have read large swaths of it, and have found the information inside accurate and helpful. I find the style to be accessible, and this book is proving to be very useful to me at work.
By J. Huff
I found this book to be an excellent overview of Reservoir Geomechanics. While comprehensive enough to adequately cover all the major problems that an industry geomechanicist is likely to encounter, it provides sufficient amount of detail for the reader to be able to study scientific literature in Geomechanics independently. All the key concepts and mathematical models are illustrated on a wide variety of case studies, and are presented in a form that allows a straightforward numerical implementation. Some knowledge of Mechanics of Continua and Rock Physics is probably a prerequisite. I would highly recommend this book to any serious student of Geomechanics.
By MM
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