Comprehensive Wellbore Stability Modeling by Integrating Poroelastic, Thermal, and Chemical Effects with Advanced Numerical Techniques

Eissa · 2024

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The authors named in the text head, led by Shokir, Sallam, and Abdelhafiz, model wellbore stability for hard drilling settings in 2024. A wellbore is the hole drilled for oil or gas. Heat, chemistry, and fluid pressure can make its walls fail. Their model joins all three effects with advanced numeric methods. Four refined models were built for high heat and pressure cases.

Four rules for wall failure were compared. Salt level in drilling mud mattered a lot: low salt raised pore pressure, high salt lowered it. Heat ruled the stress pattern round the hole. Two failure rules gave larger collapse zones than the other two. The authors give tips on mud salt and heat control to cut risk.

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CREATOREissa
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE57 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11696755

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