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To all geomechanics expert, My name is Prapun Sooksawat, I am an reservoir engineer working in a new geomechanics team in Thailand national oil and gas company. I have got the Triaxial compression tests results from an unknown laboratory. In this work, for each depth, a triplet of plugs was taken each of which tested at different confinement( 5 Mpa, 10 Mpa, 20 Mpa) in order to establish the failure envelope. According to the axial stress/strain plot, I wonder why all tests were performed with unloading axial stress at early period? I normally found this procedure only in a multi stage triaxial test (MST) when number of core is limited but still require multiple ...
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Prepared by Thomas Finkbeiner and Glen Burridge Middle East October 2016 Abu Dhabi saw the second instalment of the EAGE/SPE Geomechanics Workshop. Chaired by Thomas Finkbeiner (KAUST) and Nick Koutsabeloulis (Schlumberger) the topic of this year’s workshop was ‘Integrated Geomechanics in E&P, Manage and Improve Asset Performance using Geomechanics. Over the course of three days a series of technical presentations, lively discussion sessions, and a survey lead by Glen Burridge of Glen Burridge & Associates (GB&A) attempted to address where geomechanics currently plays a role in asset development and how this may change in the future. The first ...
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Interview with Julie Kowan, J. Kowan Consulting, LLC Q: What is your educational and professional background? A: I have a B.S. from Rutgers University and a M.S. from Brown University. Both of my degrees are in Geology. My concentration in graduate school was Tectonophysics, where I tested a proposed method of earthquake prediction. In my initial job search I found the oil and gas industry jobs far more interesting and appropriate for my skillset than any others I looked at. I went to work for GeoMechanics International (GMI) straight out of my graduate work in early 2005 and I loved it. It was just such a great group of people to learn from and work ...
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Interview with Thomas Finkbeiner Q: Please give us a brief description of your professional background. A: After graduating with a PhD in Geophysics from Stanford University in 1998, I worked for 17+ years in the petroleum industry consulting in geomechanics and related applications such as wellbore stability during drilling and production, sand production, fluid migration, unconventional reservoirs and more (first with GeoMechanics International – GMI – from 1998 to 2008 and then with Baker Hughes after GMI’s acquisition in 2008). From 2013 to 2015 I worked for OMV in Vienna (Austria) as Senior Geomechanics Expert and was responsible for fostering geomechanical ...
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I recently was made aware of this link to the archive of SPE Distinguished Lecturers' abstracts, slides and notes. I decided to do a few simple keyword searches to find the geomechanics ones, as the list is quite lengthy, going back ten years. A search on "geomechanics" yielded 6 hits and only 3 distinct talks. Searching on a few related words (e.g., sanding, stability), I found only 2 more talks. Is it possible that in 10 years there have only been 5 talks focused on geomechanics? Probably there are a few I missed, but I bet the number is still small. Let's change that! Do you know a geomechanics specialist who meets the criteria?: Nominee characteristics ...
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