Overview:
This one hour webinar will be presented in different times zones on 2 different dates with local experts available to discuss the unique needs and challenges within each region via a live Q&A.
- Wednesday, October 7th, 3pm BST (London) / 9am CDT (Houston)
- Thursday, October 8th, 3pm MYT (Kuala Lumpur)
What we'll cover:
Geomechanics models are often constructed from and calibrated to 1-dimensional data sets – along well trajectories – because that is how the data is typically acquired and organized. Examples of 1-dimensional data sets include drilling histories, well logs, mud weight profiles, field stress tests and laboratory test results from rock core. In this presentation, we explain how a 1-dimensional geomechanics model can be built from data acquired along a well trajectory, and how the model is calibrated to best fit that data and to produce a 1D geomechanics model. We also describe the benefits of constructing 1D geomechanics models, including how results of 1D models may be used to construct a 3D model that includes infill locations for which there is no well control.
Meet the Instructor:
Randy Hickman
Senior Geomechanicist
Randy worked for BP from 2006-2018 performing all aspects of oilfield geomechanics: drilling operations support including wellbore stability analysis, pore pressure prediction, and real-time pore pressure detection; reservoir compaction and fault reactivation; analytical and finite element stress prediction under in situ and production scenarios; salt mechanics; and laboratory rock mechanics testing from core scale to hydraulic fracturing block scale.
He was primarily based in Houston and spent 3+ years on assignment to Azerbaijan. Randy did a post-doc at Sandia National Laboratories primarily focused on salt mechanics. His doctoral dissertation is on North Sea chalk mechanics. Experience is in many oil and gas basins of the world including Gulf of Mexico, Trinidad, Azerbaijan, North Sea and Norway, North Africa, North American gas shales, and the Middle East. Most recent experience is in onshore North American gas shales, predicting geomechanical behavior from rock physics. Randy has published several journal articles on computational geomechanics and hydraulic fracturing.