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Rock Mechanics and Wellbore Stability Analysis

This document contains a list of final questions on topics related to rock mechanics and petroleum engineering. The questions cover topics such as rock testing methods, mechanical rock properties, stress analysis, wellbore stability, and plotting various diagrams related to stresses and wellbores. The document requests solutions to examples in applied drilling engineering textbooks and discussion of stresses around vertical wellbores and wellbore instability issues. It also includes a question on the relationship between rock formation properties and in-situ stresses.

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Rock Mechanics and Wellbore Stability Analysis

This document contains a list of final questions on topics related to rock mechanics and petroleum engineering. The questions cover topics such as rock testing methods, mechanical rock properties, stress analysis, wellbore stability, and plotting various diagrams related to stresses and wellbores. The document requests solutions to examples in applied drilling engineering textbooks and discussion of stresses around vertical wellbores and wellbore instability issues. It also includes a question on the relationship between rock formation properties and in-situ stresses.

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Final Questions

1- Question about Rock testing ‫الورق الي صورناه‬


9 ‫(وشرح شابتر‬uniaxial & triaxial).
2- What you know about
Young’s Modulus & Poison ratio & Shear modulus &
Types of rock failure criteria & benefits due to
petroleum rock mechanics & Effect of anisotropic or
mechanical properties & borehole collapse & borehole
fracture & Formation pressure & Mud window &
Porous rocks & Effective stresses & Main reasons for
determine insitu stresses & Explain how can you
estimate or calculate insitu stresses & Relations
between maximum and minimum stresses.
3- Estimate insitu stresses (Ch10) & Flowchart
showing the process sequence for wellbore design and
stability analysis (Ch11) & Estimate insitu stresses due
to Wellbore fracturing pressure and Wellbore collapse
pressure (Ch11) & Fundamental analysis of stresses
around wellbore Page 159 (10.5.2 &10.5.3)
& Explain direct and indirect methods (ch8).
4- Plot
1- Rock formation insitu principal at vertical well
2- three dimensional stresses for a cube.
3- Macroscopic classification of materials in terms of
their homogeneity and isotropy (4 Figures)
4- General problem, inclined wellbore oriented
differently from the principal in-situ stresses and the
bedding plane of anisotropic rock.
5- Geometry of the horizontal wellbore in sedimentary
rock. The constraint is that the borehole axis must
extend along the bedding plane, as well as one of the
principal stresses.
6- Figure 7.18 Local stress and pore pressure in a
porous rock.
7- Three possible principal stress orientation.
8- Figure 9.1 Possible wellbore instability problems
during drilling.
9- Figure 9.5 Schematic showing loading arrangements
for rock strength laboratory testing;
5- Example 7.1 & Example 8.1 & Example 5.1.
6- Problem from
(Applied Drilling Engineering) Page 205 to 208
Or Problem 5.6 Page 242.
7- Discuss
1- Stress of vertical wellbore
2- Wellbore instability
8- Biot’s constant + Poisson ratio Problem.
9- Relation between rock……. Formation and insitu
Facility.

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