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Wellbore Stability

Reduce drilling downtime with greater wellbore stability

Our geomechanical analyses offer drilling options that optimize wellbore stability during drilling in the overburden and in the reservoir for reduced downtime. Assess the risk associated with hole deviation to formulate a program for identifying the mud weight, mud type, mud window, and casing seat points to avoid this risk.

Comprehensive geomechanical modeling takes into account wellbore stability issues with recommendations for specific operating parameters for improved performance. We offer optimal mud weights, more stable wellbore trajectories, and improved evaluation of stability in uncased wells and multilaterals over time.

Optimize wellbore trajectory, casing design, and mud weight

We have decades of geomechanical modeling experience to help you reveal trajectories with safe mud windows and iron-clad planning you can feel good about. We’ll use our experience and innovative approaches to compute optimal mud weights.

Leverage the latest shale stability techniques

Our experts use chemoporoelastic modeling to predict the effect of mud chemistry on shale stability as a function of time. We resolve weak bedding planes in shales by predicting the effect of changing wellbore trajectory and mud weight.

Increase reservoir understanding through quantitative risk analysis

We apply quantitative risk analysis (QRA) to inform you of significant model uncertainties to guide data acquisition.

Avoid wellbore stability problems caused by weak bedding planes

Our team can quantitatively predict the effects of changing trajectory and mud weight on wellbore failure by taking into account the bedding plane orientation. 

Predict the feasibility of underbalanced drilling

Underbalanced drilling can be risky, but our proprietary software allows you to model borehole stability under these extreme conditions. 

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