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SEMINAR OUTLINE: MECHANICAL PROPERTIES / ELASTIC CONSTANTS

"50 Years Of Continuous Petrophysical Experience, At Your Service"

 

COURSE SUMMARY
This quantitative course covers all topics needed to calculate dynamic elastic properties, such as Shear Modulus, Poisson’s Ratio, Young’s Modulus, overburden stress, pore pressure, and closure stress, from modern well logs. Integration and calibration to static and dynamic lab data are stressed. Implications for hydraulic fracture design, horizontal well design, cementing practice, and stress in fractured reservoirs are discussed. Creation of synthetic log curves to replace missing or bad data are covered. A CD with spreadsheet models for mechanical properties and stress  calculations is included.

 

Participants interested in stimulation design should also see Cement Integrity Logging, as a good cement job is a prerequisite to a successful frac job.

OPEN SESSION -  LOG ANALYSIS FOR STIMULATION DESIGN
DATE:          23 May 2012        In Conjunction With GeoConvention 2012
LOCATION:     Downtown Calgary 

INSTRUCTOR: E. R. (Ross) Crain, P.Eng.
DURATION:     1 day      PDH:    8 Professional Development Hours
FEE:                C$ 750.00 + GST     
Includes: "Crain's Mechanical Properties" full colour Reference Manual  (89 pages)
  AND       "Crain's Cement Integrity Logging" full colour Reference Manual  (57 pages)
  AND       CD with spreadsheet models for most calculations.


COURSE DURATION
1 day - 8 Professional Development Hours (PDH)

COURSE LEVEL
Beginner to Intermediate, calculator required.

REFERENCE MANUAL
Course manuals are included in course fee, or can be ordered separately.
RF-05: "Crain's Mechanical Properties", 89 pages. 

AUDIO VISUAL SLIDE SHOW
AV-02: "Crain's Integrated Petrophysics - Advanced Topics" Audio Visual Narrated Slide Show on CD-ROM, for self study, can be ordered separately,  
Unlimited Worldwide Multi-Student Corporate Licenses also available.

BENEFITS

  • provides understanding of the elastic properties model for log analysis

  • provides step-by-step procedures for calculations

  • provides "computer ready" mathematics

  • gives insight into rock quality versus fracture performance

  • provides exercises and worked examples for further study

  • permanent reference material

COURSE OUTLINE

0 lMechanical Properties Basics
1 Elastic Constants Theory
2 Log Editing Basics
3 Calculating Mechanical Properties Of Rocks
      1. Shear Modulus N
      2. Poisson's Ratio PR
      3. Bulk Modulus Kb
      4. Bulk Compressibility Cb
      5. Biot’s Constant Alpha
      6. Young's Modulus Y 
      7. Modulus of Compressibility Kc
      8. Pore Compressibility Kp or Kf
4 Calibrating Dynamic to Static Constants
5 Examples of Mechanical Properties Logs
6 Calculating Overburden Pressure Gradient
 
7 Calculating Normal Pore Pressure Gradient
8 Calculating Abnormal Pressure Gradient
9 Calculating Fracture Pressure Gradient
10 Calibrating Fracture Pressure Gradient
11 Calculating Fracture Extent
12 Gamma Ray Logging to Confirm Fracture
        Placement
13 Fracture Orientation from Caliper and
       Dipmeter Logs
Appendices
  Tables of Rock Properties
  Elastic Constants Transforms
  Alternate Log Editing Models
  Dispersion and Gas Effects
Exercises

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