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Petroleum rock mechanics [2nd ed.] : drilling operations and well design

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Gulf Professional Publishing 2019 CambridgeEdition: 2nd edDescription: xxvii, 431pISBN:
  • 9780128159033
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 553.28 Aa23p2
Summary: Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Drilling Operations and Well Design, Second Edition, keeps petroleum and drilling engineers centrally focused on the basic fundamentals surrounding geomechanics, while also keeping them up-to-speed on the latest issues and practical problems. Updated with new chapters on operations surrounding shale oil, shale gas, and hydraulic fracturing, and with new sections on in-situ stress, drilling design of optimal mud weight, and wellbore instability analysis, this book is an ideal resource. By creating a link between theory with practical problems, this updated edition continues to provide the most recent research and fundamentals critical to today’s drilling operations. Helps readers grasp the techniques needed to analyze and solve drilling challenges, in particular wellbore instability analysis Teaches rock mechanic fundamentals and presents new concepts surrounding sand production and hydraulic fracturing operations Includes new case studies and sample problems to practice
List(s) this item appears in: New arrival November 4 to 10, 2019
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Books Books PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur General Stacks 553.28 Aa23p2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out to Amar Agarwal (E0599700) 08/07/2025 A184957
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Petroleum Rock Mechanics: Drilling Operations and Well Design, Second Edition, keeps petroleum and drilling engineers centrally focused on the basic fundamentals surrounding geomechanics, while also keeping them up-to-speed on the latest issues and practical problems. Updated with new chapters on operations surrounding shale oil, shale gas, and hydraulic fracturing, and with new sections on in-situ stress, drilling design of optimal mud weight, and wellbore instability analysis, this book is an ideal resource. By creating a link between theory with practical problems, this updated edition continues to provide the most recent research and fundamentals critical to today’s drilling operations.


Helps readers grasp the techniques needed to analyze and solve drilling challenges, in particular wellbore instability analysis
Teaches rock mechanic fundamentals and presents new concepts surrounding sand production and hydraulic fracturing operations
Includes new case studies and sample problems to practice

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