SHORT COURSE

NON-CONVENTIONAL GEOMECHANICS FOR UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES

December 12, 2023, 8:00 AM to 4:00pm, December 13, 2023, 8:00am to 4:00pm

Denver Earth Resources Library 

730 17th Street, B1, Denver, Co

Course Instructor: Dr. Hamed Soroush

About this Course

Nowadays, unconventional resources of gas have been brought into the forefront of the energy future due to the increase in demand of hydrocarbon and decline of production from conventional reservoirs. Due to low permeability of shale gas reservoirs, production at commercial level requires conducting horizontal drilling technology and applying effective hydraulic fracturing. Therefore, successful production from such complex reservoirs is heavily dependent on the stress regime and requires sufficient geomechanical analyses.

Geomechanics is an essential component of production from both conventional and unconventional reservoirs; however, geomechanics for unconventional resources is to some extend different from conventional reservoirs due to intricacy imposed by inelastic matrix behavior, stress sensitivity, existence of cleats and natural fractures, rock rheology, and different pressure-temperature environments. This course discusses the geomechanical aspects of unconventional resources and how it adds value to the development of this type of reservoirs.

See the full course content below.

Who will teach

Dr Hamed Soroush is an internationally recognized geomechanics expert with extensive experience in different applications of rock mechanics in oil and gas, geothermal and CCS projects. He has conducted or managed more than 300 consulting and research projects worldwide. Dr Soroush is the CEO of TEVERRA based in Atlanta, GA. Prior to that, he held various positions with companies such as Dong Energy, Shell, PDVSA, Weatherford, Senergy, GMI, and CSIRO in different locations globally. Hamed holds BSc in Mining Engineering, MSc in Rock Mechanics and PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Curtin University of Technology in Australia. He has given different industry short courses for SPE, AAPG and EAGE and has served as steering committee on several SPE and EAGE conferences and workshops. He served as SPE Distinguished Lecturer for the 2012-2013, 2017-2018, and 2020-2021 programs.

Who should attend

• Drilling, reservoir, completion, exploitation, and production engineers
• Geoscientists, geologists, geophysicists, and petrophysicists
• Field development managers, technical advisors, core lab personnel

What you will learn

This is an interactive course including three modules: Geomechanical Modeling, wellbore stability and hydraulic fracturing. In the first part, the importance of geomechanics in the development of unconventional resources will be discussed. Constructing 1D to 4D geomechanical models using geology and drilling information, well logs and core data from off-set wells is the major part of this section of the course. How to calibrate and validate the model with regional stress and rock strength data will also be discussed. The second part focuses on chemical wellbore stability analysis and drilling risk identification/mitigation. The last section discusses hydraulic fracturing design and modeling, and completion design optimization. The differences between geomechanical analysis in conventional and unconventional reservoirs will be explained and special attention will be paid to rock anisotropy. The last part of the course will be an interactive hands-on session constructing a geomechanical model using Excel.

What you will receive

Participants in the course will receive:

• A detailed course manual including all presented material
• Workbook and Excel sheets with Case Studies
• Up-to-date reference lists on all topics covered in the course
• Collection of Relevant Technical Papers

Registration Details

• $400 for Members
• $500 for Non Members (not a member? join today)

Registration Closes December 8th

Refunds for the December 12th and 13th course are only available until November 28th.