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Petroleum Geomechanics: A Computational Perspective

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Petroleum geomechanics is concerned with rock and fracture behavior in reservoir, drilling, completion, and production engineering. Typical problems in petroleum geomechanics include subsidence, borehole stability, and hydraulic fracturing. All are coupled problems that involve heat transfer, fluid flow, rock/fracture deformation, and/or solute transport. Numerical solutions through modeling are desired for such complicated systems. In this chapter, we present the mathematical descriptions of these typical problems in petroleum geomechanics, point out the challenges in solving these problems, and address those challenges by a variety of classical and emerging numerical techniques.

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  1. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, N2L 3G1

    Maurice B. Dusseault

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, N2L 3G1

    Robert Gracie, Dipanjan Basu & Leo Rothenburg

  3. Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA

    Shunde Yin

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Dusseault, M.B., Gracie, R., Basu, D., Rothenburg, L., Yin, S. (2016). Petroleum Geomechanics: A Computational Perspective. In: Jin, C., Cusatis, G. (eds) New Frontiers in Oil and Gas Exploration. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40124-9_9

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