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Geomechanical
Earth Modeling

Reduce uncertainties, and maximize
the economic potential of subsurface resources

Ensuring Safe and Sustainable Drilling Operations

GeoEnergy’s Geomechanical Earth Modeling solutions offer significant benefits in reservoir management, production optimization, risk mitigation, geohazard assessment, wellbore design, and asset integrity. We conduct geomechanical models, incorporating geological, geophysical, and geotechnical data to understand the distribution and properties of rocks and fluids, which play a pivotal role in wellbore stability, fracturing stimulation, reservoir compaction & subsidence, underground storage & disposal, enhancing reservoir understanding, improving well planning & design, mitigation of reservoir complications, risk assessment & management, optimal hydraulic fracturing design, reservoir management, and field development, cost reduction and operational efficiency.

Our innovative modeling technology is designed to mitigate drilling costs and production losses caused by stuck pipes, lost circulation, and sand production. This technology harnesses our existing knowledge of the prevailing in-situ stress field, pore pressure, and rock properties to accurately determine the minimum mud weights necessary to prevent wellbore stability issues, ensuring efficient and cost-effective drilling operations. Leveraging our advanced model, we meticulously craft a comprehensive wellbore stability assessment and casing design tailored for new drilling wells. This rigorous process is meticulously guided by crucial factors, including the prevailing in-situ stress conditions, reservoir pore pressure, and the inherent properties of the rock formations, such as their uniaxial compressive strength. Maintaining a precise understanding of the mud weight required to effectively prevent borehole collapse within the reservoir is paramount throughout the drilling process, ensuring both safety and success in drilling and completion operations.

Navigate the Complexities of the Underground with Geomechanical Earth Modeling

Our geomechanical model provides a comprehensive understanding of the rock properties and stress conditions in the new planned wells, thereby minimizing non-productive time (NPT) during drilling operations, and this is accomplished by incorporating drilling experience and existing data into a 1D Geomechanical Model and conducting a wellbore stability analysis for the planned wells.

Data collection for the offset wells

Data collection for the offset wells

Collect data from different disciplines, Geophysics, Geology, Petrophysics, Drilling, Formation Evaluation, Reservoir Engineering, and Rock Mechanics, to be delivered in several formats, including application-specific and tool-specific formats, spreadsheets, and paper reports. 
1D mechanical models

1D mechanical models

Constructed using the software platform to include the profiles of pore pressure in the reservoir and overburden, the rock properties, stress magnitudes, and stress direction in the field.
Result analysis

Result analysis

Show the main reasons for the overpressure and NPT zones and how they could be mitigated in future wells.
Post-drill analysis for the planned wells

Post-drill analysis for the planned wells

Update the geomechanical model and provide new recommendations and mitigations to improve the drilling efficiency and safety of the next planned well to be drilled.
Pre-drill model creation for the planned wells

Pre-drill model creation for the planned wells

Use the available geological and geophysical data that help to estimate the pore pressure model in the new locations. The 1D basin model estimates the overpressure zones in the new wells.
Reporting

Reporting

Includes the analysis procedures, the results of the study, and their implications
Results analysis for the planned wells

Results analysis for the planned wells

Showcase the optimum mud window, casing design, and drilling recommendations for each zone in the planned wells. In addition to quantitative risk assessment for the data uncertainties and the mud weights.

Why GeoEnergy?

Improved Reservoir Understanding
Enhanced Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Optimal Wellbore Design and Drilling Efficiency

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Make Informed Decisions about Reservoir Development and Production with GeoEnergy’s Geomechanical Analysis

Contact us today to schedule an appointment with our expert and explore how our comprehensive Geomechanical Earth Modeling services can push your operations forward.