This five-day course provides an intermediate level of understanding of the geomechanical factors that affect wellbore instability, sand production and hydraulic fracture design. The course is structured such that upon completion, participants will have understood the value that geomechanics can bring to drilling, completion and production operations and will be able to leverage this value wherever it applies. The course emphasis will be on integrating the topics presented through a combination of lectures, case-studies and hands-on exercises. A special focus will be on how geomechanics knowledge is extracted from routinely acquired well data and how it is applied in the prediction and prevention of formation instability.

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Your Expert Course Leader
Ken Russell
Ken Russell is an operational geomechanics advisor with over 40 years of experience in exploration,
development and production in the upstream oil and gas industry. Ken was one of Schlumberger’s
principal instructors, delivering cross-discipline internal and external geomechanics training to
petrophysicists, geologists, reservoir, petroleum, well construction and drilling engineers at operating
company locations, training centers and operational centers worldwide.
What past participants said:
“Excellent Course on fundamental understanding of Geomechanics and trainer is knowledgeable of the subject”
Drilling Engineer, JX Nippon Oil & Gas
“Excellent” Drilling & Field Development Engineer, Idemitsu Oil & Gas Co Ltd

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About this training course
This five-day course provides an intermediate level of understanding of the
geomechanical factors that affect wellbore instability, sand production and
hydraulic fracture design. The course is structured such that upon
completion, participants will have understood the value that geomechanics
can bring to drilling, completion and production operations and will be able
to leverage this value wherever it applies. The course emphasis will be on
integrating the topics presented through a combination of lectures, case-
studies and hands-on exercises. A special focus will be on how
geomechanics knowledge is extracted from routinely acquired well data
and how it is applied in the prediction and prevention of formation
instability.
Course Highlights
The course is essentially non-mathematical and makes wide use of
diagrams, pictures and exercises to illustrate the essential concepts of
geomechanics:
 Essential Rock Mechanics Principles
 Wellbore Stability Analysis
 Anisotropic Rock Properties for unconventional projects
 Lost Circulation and Wellbore Strengthening applications
 Sand Production Management
 Input to Hydraulic Fracture design
 Salt instability
By attending this training, you will be able to acquire the following:
 Apply the basic concepts of geomechanics to identify, predict and mitigate
against formation instability during drilling, completion and production
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for Drilling Engineers, Well Engineers, Production
Technologists, Completion Engineers, Well Superintendents, Directional
Drillers, Wellsite Supervisors and others, who wish to further their
understanding of rock mechanics and its application to drilling and
completion.
Attendees are requested to have been exposed to drilling, completions and
production operations in their positions and to have a recommended
minimum of 3 years of field experience.
About your Expert Trainer:
Ken Russell
Ken Russell is an operational
geomechanics advisor with
over 40 years of experience
in exploration, development and
production in the upstream oil and gas
industry. After obtaining a BSc (Hons)
Physics degree from Aberdeen University,
Ken worked for a variety of oil service
companies in wireline operations,
management and formation evaluation,
before joining Schlumberger in 1995.
Since 2000 he has worked principally in
real-time geomechanics operations and
developing acousto-geomechical
applications, taking on the role of
geomechanics advisor and technical
manager within the Europe-Africa area of
operations. Before forming his own
company in 2014, Ken was one of
Schlumberger’s principal instructors,
delivering cross-discipline internal and
external geomechanics training to
petrophysicists, geologists, reservoir,
petroleum, well construction and drilling
engineers at operating company
locations, training centers and
operational centers worldwide. Through
extensive operational and wellsite
experience gained in the North Sea,
Europe, Africa, South America and the Far
East, he has gained a broad based
knowledge of drilling, production, log
data acquisition, analysis and
interpretation that has allowed him to
develop and deliver pragmatic solutions
to the geomechanical challenges of
drilling, sand production, fracturing and
unconventional reservoirs, faced by
operators.
His principal interests include the
development and application of acousto-
geomechanical techniques for the
evaluation of anisotropic formations and
fracture systems and the identification
and prevention of wellbore instability.

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5 DAY COURSE AGENDA
DAY 1
INTRODUCTION TO INTERMEDIATE PETROLEUM
GEOMECHANICS
ESSENTIAL ROCK MECHANICS AND EARTH STRESSES
 Review of fundamental mechanics
 Regional Stress & basic definition
 Normal and shear stresses
 Elasticity, yield and plasticity
Exercise: Estimating rock properties from triaxial core test data
MECHANICAL CORE TESTING
 Uniaxial, triaxial and thick-walled cylinder testing
 How to plan rock mechanics testing & acquisition (from
coring to preservation)
 Basic constitutive laws
Exercise: Using Mohr’s Circle to understand formation failure
PORE PRESSURE
 Sources of overpressure
 Pre-drill pore pressure prediction from seismic data
 Pore pressure prediction techniques from logs and drilling
data
Exercise: Prediction of overpressure from sonic data
DAY 2
CONSTRUCTION AND UTILISATION OF A ROCK MECHANICAL
EARTH MODEL
 Estimating in-situ earth stresses and pore pressure
DATA ACQUISITION RECOMMENDATIONS
 Extended Leak-off Tests
 Minifrac test
WELLBORE INSTABILITY
 Rock mechanics versus drilling operations
 State of stress around a wellbore
 Estimating stability limits – choosing a mud weight
 Influence of well trajectory
 Unconventional failures
Exercise: Stability limits for vertical and horizontal wells
PLANNING FOR WELLBORE STABILITY
 Data gathering
 Mud weight window calculations
 Operational identification and management
DAY 3
PLANNING FOR WELLBORE STABILITY
Case-study practical: Choosing an optimal wellbore trajectory
UNCONVENTIONALS
 Shale oil and gas
 Understanding rock property anisotropy and the
measurements required
RESERVOIR GEOMECHANICS
 Accounting for the effects of stress changes due to
depletion and injection (CO2 storage)
 Temperature effects
 Compaction and subsidence
 Fault Reactivation
 Completion and caprock integrity
DAY 4
GEOMECHANICAL ASPECTS OF LOST CIRCULATION
 Lost circulation mechanisms
 Understanding wellbore strengthening techniques
Exercise: Solve a lost circulation problem using real-life log and
drilling data
SAND PRODUCTION, PREDICTION AND MANAGEMENT
 Sand production mechanisms
 Critical drawdown calculation
 Sand avoidance versus sand exclusion
 Sand avoidance techniques
 Influence of depletion and water cut
Exercise: Choosing a completion strategy to manage sand
production
DAY 5
GEOMECHANICAL ASPECTS OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURE
STIMULATION
 Stress profiling
 Rock property estimation
 Fracture geometry and orientation
Exercise: Stress barriers for fracture confinement
SALT INSTABILITY
 Geomechanics of salt formations – plastic deformation
 Stress modelling around salt diapirs
 Drilling hazards

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