Concise Guide to Geopressure - Origin, Prediction, and Applications

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Reservoir pore pressure; 3. Mudrock material behavior; 4. The origins of geopressure; 5. Pore pressure prediction in mudrocks; 6. Pore pressure prediction: unloading, diagenesis, and non-uniaxial strain; 7. Pressure and stress from seismic velocity; 8. Overburden stress, least principal stress, and fracture initiation pressure; 9. Trap integrity; 10. Flow focusing and centroid prediction; 11. Flow focusing, fluid expulsion, and the protected trap; References; Index.

About the author

Peter B. Flemings is a professor and holds the Barrows Centennial Chair with the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas, Austin. He leads 'UT GeoFluids', a long-running industry-sponsored effort dedicated to developing new concepts and approaches to predict pressure and stress in the subsurface. He served on the US Department of Energy's well integrity team during the Deepwater Horizon blowout, he is a Geological Society of America Fellow, and he was a distinguished lecturer for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the International Ocean Drilling Program. He has served as Chief Scientist on numerous scientific drilling expeditions.

Summary

A concise guide to the origins and prediction of subsurface fluid pressures. It includes numerous case studies to emphasize the interactions with geological processes, and demonstrates applications using laboratory experiments to provide a step-by-step approach to building a pore pressure profile for geoscientists and petroleum engineers.

Product details

• Authors: Peter B. Flemings, Peter B. (University of Texas Flemings
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781107042346
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04234-6
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Petroleum, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Energy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Fossil Fuels, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Marine & Naval, Geological surface processes (geomorphology), Energy industries & utilities, Soil science, sedimentology, Marine engineering, Petroleum, oil and gas industries, Petroleum technology, Sedimentology and pedology, Geomorphology and geological surface processes