Course description
Pore Pressure Measurement and Prediction
Pore pressure is a critical parameter for geomechanical modeling, and its proper characterization has a great importance as will be discussed in this skill module.
Upcoming start dates
1 start date available
Suitability - Who should attend?
Geoscientists, petrophysicists, completion and drilling engineers or anyone involved in unconventional reservoir development
Training Course Content
You will learn how to:
- Identify the significance of pore pressure in subsurface operations such as drilling, completion, production, etc.
- Define pore pressure in porous rock and describe the mechanical interaction between the rock matrix and fluid and explain the concept of effective stresses
- List different pore pressure regimes and explain their differences
- Recognize and explain different mechanisms that result in overpressure regimes including stress-induced, uplift, buoyancy and pressure difference, and fluid generation and fluid expansion mechanisms
- Identify and describe natural and artificial mechanisms that result in underpressure regimes
- List different methods used for pressure detection and prediction including pre-drilling, while-drilling and after-drilling methods
- Describe the fundamentals of pore pressure measurement using well testing
- Recognize the influence of pore pressure on different rock properties, petrophysical logs and seismic attributes that can be implemented for identifying overpressuring
- Explain the influence of high pore pressure on different rock properties such as porosity, density, wave velocities, and resistivity
- Explain basic equivalent depth and ratio methods to estimate overpressuring from petrophysical logs
- Explain how drilling indicators (e.g., kicks, tight spots, gas shows, etc.), rock cavings and drilling rate are used for estimation of pore pressure
- Explain the challenges of pore pressure prediction in unconventional plays
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