Producing natural gas from shale gas reservoir presents a great challenge to petroleum
industry due to its low permeability nature. The process of gas release and production from …

Obtaining quantitative information on the state of stress in the crust can only be
accomplished by accessing the zone of interest by drilling. The borehole cavity, however …

The mechanical sciences are old and venerable. But age does not protect from stupidity.
The Cremona-plan and the theorem of the parallelogram of forces in their seniority have …

Reservoir stimulation and artificial lift are the two main activities of the production engineer
in the petroleum and related industries. The main purpose of stimulation is to enhance the …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on fundamentals of poroelasticity. The presence of
a freely moving fluid in a porous rock modifies its mechanical response. Two mechanisms …

The theory of linear poroelasticity describes the interaction between mechanical effects and
adding or removing fluid from rock. It is critical to the study of such geological phenomena as …

Borehole instabilities pose significant challenges to drilling and completion operations,
particularly in regions with weak bedding planes and pre-existing fractures where formations …

This book explains how to properly engineer and optimize a hydraulically fractured well by
selecting the right materials, evaluating the economic benefits, and ensuring the safety and …

A procedure for numerical approximation to two‐dimensional, hydraulically‐driven fracture
propagation in a poroelastic material is described. The method uses a partitioned solution …

This paper presents a new, fully-coupled, hydro-mechanical (HM) formulation for a finite-
discrete element method computer code. In the newly-developed, hydraulic solver, fluid flow …