Committee Members

Objectives:

• Coordinate research and technology development in the area of geomechanics.

• Assist in experience transfer in the area of geomechanics spanning technology related to drilling,
  completion, well design, stimulation, waste injection and subsurface modeling.

• Facilitate contact with universities with an aim to ensure long term development of competent personnel to the oil and gas industry.

Seminars/Workshops:

Coupled Modelling: A Full Physics Approach to Reservoir Modelling - 21 - 22 November 2006
at NPD Offices in Stavanger, Norway

Organizing committee: Trond G. Kristiansen/BP
 

Current focus areas:

• Characterization of in situ conditions with respect to stress, pore pressure and mechanical properties.

• Sharing experience of geomechanical effects from fields with severe depletion.
  Issues are stress change, deformations, well integrity and seismic response.

  JIP on pore pressure measurement in shale. (more info here)
The geomechanical groups of major oil companies have decided to join forces to solve one of the major outstanding issues:
The pore pressure in shale. This parameter has up to now only been indirectly estimated. It is due time to measure it directly
and a Joint Industry project called MESPOSH, Measuring Pore Pressure in Shale is now under preparation to solve this task.

Status and action plan     Scorecard    (members only)
Proposal I   Proposal II   Proposal III   Proposal IV   Proposal V   Proposal VI

Longterm research topics and technology needs: See OG21 TTA report on Exloration and Reservoir Characterisation.
 

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