Technical Services

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We provide pre-drill pore pressure and fracture gradient estimates to ensure safe drilling by preventing well kicks (inflows) and severe mud losses.

We help you develop an optimized casing and mud program to prevent wellbore instability and to reduce NPT by integrating in situ stresses and rock mechanical properties into a geomechanical model that predicts wellbore failure.

We help you improve wellbore stability in narrow drilling windows by designing a mud salinity program that uses osmosis as mean to reduced borehole collapse pressure. 

We help you avoid severe mud losses when drilling across faults by modeling the maximum allowable ECD before there is fault slippage and subsequent loss of drilling fluids.

We can help optimize your completions to eliminate the risk of sand production by establishing the maximum allowable drawdowns and optimal perforation orientation.  

We can help you design and optimize your hydraulic fractures to maximize the stimulated rock volume by constructing detailed stress profiles and taking into account the interaction between hydraulic and natural fractures.

We help you to build models that capture regional and local stress magnitudes and orientations as they are affected by the presence of faults and salt domes. Our 3D models can be used to address topics like cap rock integrity, fault stability, compaction, subsidence, induced seismicity and more. 

We help you assess whether during production your reservoir will compact as a result of the change in pore pressure. Our models can also assess whether the compaction at the reservoir would propagate to the surface resulting in subsidence. Conversely, we can assess whether injection can result in reservoir deformation and ground level heave. These deformations at the reservoir or surface level can put at risk below and above surface facilities.

We help design drawdown programs to mitigate risks due mechanical skin and well integrity by modeling stress concentrations near the wellbore that arise from continuous reservoir production. 

We can assess the risk of induced seismicity associated to fluid injection in the subsurface by building 3D geomechanical models that assess the state of stress near faults and the likelihood of shear failure that could lead to earthquakes.

We help you understand the impact of changing stresses due to depletion on the overall permeability of the natural fracture network by modeling the change in normal stress acting on each fracture and the corresponding change in mechanical aperture. Under injection operations, we help you predict which fracture orientations are more prone to shear failure and so to increase permeability.