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His new book, unconventional reservoir geomechanics, written with arjun kohli, is being released by cambridge press in april, 2019. Reservoir geomechanics we are carrying out a series of studies, usually in close collaboration with the oil and gas industry, on problems in oil and gas reservoirs, potential co2 repositories and geothermal reservoirs. Reservoir geomechanics resgeo202 homework 5 1 resgeo 202 reservoir geomechanics spring 2017, stanford online homework 5 analyzing fractures from fmi image logs solutions please direct any questions to the piazza discussion forum. This course will investigate oil and gas production from extremely low permeability reservoirs.
Stanford school of earth, energy and environmental sciences. Effects of reservoir depletion, reservoir geomechanics, geology and petroleum engineering course by fanarco net. Stanford center for induced and triggered seismicity. Unconventional reservoir geomechanics gp208, stanford university spring 2016 teaching assistant. Zoback is an american geophysicist and the benjamin m. Reservoir geomechanics geophys 202 spr unconventional reservoir geomechanics geophys 208 win 201718 courses. Reservoir geomechanics kindle edition by zoback, mark d download it once and read it. Stanford online reservoir geomechanics is now open. Self paced, 31st mar, 2019, 26th mar, 2018, 3rd apr, 2017, 29th mar, 2016, 30th mar. Reservoir geomechanics 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. Production induced faulting, petroleum reservoir engineering, geology. The structural engineering and geomechanics program offers research opportunities and courses in a broad range of areas related to structural analysis and design, geomechanics, risk management and construction of civil engineering facilities.
The first part of the course establishes the basic principles. One of the most complete books on reservoir geomechanics unfortunately there was no extensive treatment of earthquake focal mechanisms, a subject mark zoback has much knowledge of. The drilling and completions strategy is to be the industry leader in the delivery of wells to maximize recovery. Reservoir geomechanics, published by cambridge university press in 2007 is now its 15th printing. A free online course from stanford university april 1, 2014 june 10, 2014 this interdisciplinary course encompasses the fields of rock mechanics, structural geology, earthquake seismology and petroleum engineering to address a wide range of geomechanical problems that arise during the exploitation of oil and gas reservoirs. Unconventional reservoir characterization,management, and. Mechanisms of hydrocarbon migration, exploitation of fractured reservoirs, reservoir compaction and subsidence, hydraulic fracturing, utilization of directional and horizontal drilling to optimize well. He is also a senior fellow at the precourt institute for energy at stanford university, an elected fellow of the american association for the advancement of science and the national academy of engineering, and he directs or codirects the stanford center for induced and triggered.
Nicola castelletto stanford university, multiscale and blockpartitioned solvers for coupled reservoir flow and geomechanics april 24, 2017 12. The concepts and technical terms used in the book are easy to understand and readily applicable to solving subsurface problems. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading reservoir geomechanics. Lecture 1 is a course overview to introduce students to the topics covered in the course. Nicola castelletto stanford university, multiscale and blockpartitioned solvers for coupled reservoir flow and geomechanics sponsored by energy resources engineering. His online course, also entitled reservoir geomechanics, has been completed by over 10,000 students around the world. Equal area lower hemisphere n 28 the plot above shows all fractures.
Reservoir geomechanics hw3 estimating rock strength from. Free online course in reservoir geomechanics april 2017. This interdisciplinary course encompasses the fields of rock mechanics, structural geology, earthquake seismology and petroleum engineering to address a wide range of geomechanical problems that arise during the exploitation of oil and gas reservoirs. Direct modeling of geomechanics in reservoir simulation has gained a massive amount of interest in the last decade, due both to the increase in the available computing. This interdisciplinary course encompasses the fields of rock mechanics, structural geology, earthquake seismology and petroleum engineering to address a wide range of geomechanical problems that arise.
Mark zoback, a stanford professor of geophysics, discusses the impact of the. To identify the mechanism of seismicity, geologic, productioninjection, and seismicity data are gathered to build a detailed simulation model with coupled fluid flow and geomechanics to model fluid injectionproduction and the potential onset of seismicity. Page professor of geophysics at stanford university. Reservoir geomechanics gp202, stanford university memberships. Areas of research emphasis include performancebased engineering, computational mechanics, design construction integration, earthquake. Poster presented at schatzalp workshop on induced seismicity, davos, switzerland, 16 march 2017. Page professor of earth sciences and professor of geophysics in the department of geophysics at stanford university.
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