Título: Mechanical Stability of Horizontal Wellbore Implementing Mogi-Coulomb Law
Autores: Al-Ajmi, Adel M.; Department of Petroleum and Chemical Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat
Fecha: 2012-12-31
Publicador: Advances in Petroleum Exploration and Development
Fuente:
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

Tema:
Wellbore stability; Borehole failure; Collapse pressure; Mogi-coulomb criterion; Horizontal drilling

Descripción: In this paper, a linear elastic constitutive model is described. The model consists of a three dimensional analyses of stress concentration around an arbitrarily oriented borehole, due to anisotropic in situ stress combined with internal wellbore pressure. Studying the principal stresses around a borehole require the consideration of three possible permutations for the principal stresses: (1) σz ≥ σq  ≥ σr, (2) σq  ≥ σz ≥ sr, and (3) σq  ≥ σr ≥ σz. Considering the practical field conditions, in normal faulting stress regime and reverse faulting stress regime, wellbore stability analysis can be simplified by only assuming case 2 (σθ  ≥ σz ≥ σr) for the principal stresses around horizontal borehole. In strike-slip stress regime, however, all the three possible permutations for the principal stresses should be considered in wellbore stability analysis. The constitutive model in conjunction with Mogi-Coulomb law has been used to introduce a new wellbore stability model for horizontal boreholes. The developed model has improved wellbore stability analysis compared to adopting the classical Mohr-Coulomb criterion that is commonly applied. This has been verified by several typical field case studies.Key words: Wellbore stability; Borehole failure; Collapse pressure; Mogi-coulomb criterion; Horizontal drilling
Idioma: Inglés

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