Techlog Pore Pressure Prediction

Improve operational safety, visualize geomechanical outputs, and compute safe mud-weight windows.

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Improve operational safety, visualize geomechanical outputs, and compute safe mud-weight windows.

Techlog Pore Pressure Prediction
Compute safe mud weight window using state-of-the-art methods for estimating pore pressure and formation fracture gradients.
  • Compute safe mud weight window using state-of-the-art methods for estimating pore pressure and formation fracture gradients
  • Calculate pore pressure from sonic data using the Eaton method
  • Easy mapping of trendlines to offset wells.
  • Buoyancy and centroid effect computation.
  • Industry standard methods for fracture gradient computation, including constant k0 method, Eaton method, Matthews and Kelly method.
  • Easy integration of calibration data such as XLOT of a mini-frac.
Techlog Pore Pressure Prediction
Pore pressure calculation from sonic data using the Eaton method.

Overburden stress

  • Overbuden stress computation integrating synthetic and measured density using the Extrapolation, Amoco, Miller, and Traugott methods.
  • Synthetic density methods from Gardner, Sayers, and Wendt.

Pore pressure and fracture gradient

  • Easy mapping of trendlines to offset wells.
  • Display of calibration data from drilling or other Techlog wellbore software tools such as the Techlog Formation Pressure module.
  • Buoyancy and centroid effect computation.
  • Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis.

Fracture gradient

  • Industry standard methods for fracture gradient computation, including constant k0 method, Eaton method, Matthews and Kelly method.
  • Easy integration of calibration data such as XLOT of a mini-frac.
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