PreVue
Pore pressure analysis service
Predict and monitor pore pressure, fracture gradients, and well stability in real time, integrating data from diverse sources for greater accuracy and understanding.
Drilling Geomechanics
Expertise, answers, and insight to maintain wellbore stability and quality
Improve well placement and design
Reduce exposure to drilling hazards
Reduce NPT and well costs
Monitor pore pressure predictions ahead of bit
Our drilling geomechanics services combine prejob offset analysis, earth model building, and remote expert support during operations to manage geomechanics challenges. Designed to address increasingly complex geomechanical environments with uncertain subsurface pressures, stresses, and rock properties, our services help you make the right decisions and maintain a stable wellbore.
Predrill planning
The subsurface mechanical earth model constructed in the predrill phase is used to optimize wellbore stability boundaries for a proposed trajectory. A multidisciplinary team develops a well plan that identifies hazards associated with the trajectory and presents wellbore stability information that can be used by all stakeholders involved in well construction.
Monitoring and predicting
As new datasets become available, the well plan is updated to ensure that it remains current. Changes in the geological sequence or changes to pore pressure and wellbore stability boundaries may necessitate changes to the well plan, such as moving a casing point.
During drilling operations, geomechanics experts analyze all available drilling, petrophysics, mud, seismic, and geological data in real time to visualize current downhole conditions. The real-time information acquired from LWD services, surface data including solids and gas monitoring from wellsite-based surface logging experts, and drilling parameters enable the team to reassess hazards to provide the best information for taking preventive or remedial action.
To assist your team during well planning and design, our geomechanics experts provide a DrillMAP drilling engineering and operations plan that provides actionable wellbore-stability and pore-pressure information. During operations, our pore pressure and geomechanics experts use DrillCAST drilling operations look-ahead to continuously monitor data while drilling, providing you recommendations to avoid potential hazards ahead of the bit.
Geomechanics software
Optimal decision making and accurate assessment of geomechanical risks for your reservoirs and surrounding formations
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