Petroleum rock mechanics : drilling operations and well design /
Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Drilling Operations and Well Design, Second Edition, keeps petroleum and drilling engineers centrally focused on the basic fundamentals surrounding geomechanics, while also keeping them up-to-speed on the latest issues and practical problems. Updated with new chapters on op...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, MA :
Gulf Professional Publishing, an imprint of Elsevier,
2019.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Drilling Operations and Well Design, Second Edition, keeps petroleum and drilling engineers centrally focused on the basic fundamentals surrounding geomechanics, while also keeping them up-to-speed on the latest issues and practical problems. Updated with new chapters on operations surrounding shale oil, shale gas, and hydraulic fracturing, and with new sections on in-situ stress, drilling design of optimal mud weight, and wellbore instability analysis, this book is an ideal resource. By creating a link between theory with practical problems, this updated edition continues to provide the most recent research and fundamentals critical to today's drilling operations. Key Features: Helps readers grasp the techniques needed to analyze and solve drilling challenges, in particular wellbore instability analysis; Teaches rock mechanic fundamentals and presents new concepts surrounding sand production and hydraulic fracturing operations; Includes new case studies and sample problems to practice. -- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780128159040 0128159049 |