A Poroelastic Analysis to Address the Impact of Depletion Rate on Wellbore Stability in Openhole Horizontal Completions

Proceedings of the SPE/ISRM Rock Mechanics in Petroleum Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 553-559

  Salamy, Salam P ^a   Finkbeiner, Thomas ^b  

^a SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

^b GeoMechanics International Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTICITY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; OIL FIELDS; OIL WELL DRILLING; OIL WELLS; ROCKS;

SHEAR FAILURE;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 1642581488     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/78562-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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