Abstract
The term "geomechanics"means different things to different people. We assert that in the petroleum industry the broad consensus for a definition would probably be something like this: Geomechanics is the discipline that investigates rock mechanical behavior in the subsurface (i.e., at the wellbore wall, the overburden, cap rock, and/or the reservoir) under present-day in-situ stress and pore pressure conditions or those changed through human activity/intervention (e.g., production, injection, stimulation) during the life of a well.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 792 |
Number of pages | 1 |
Journal | Leading Edge |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2021 |
Keywords
- geomechanics
- mechanical behavior
- optimization
- subsurface rocks
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geophysics
- Geology