Techlog Pore Pressure Prediction

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

Overview

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

Compute safe mud weight window using state-of-the-art methods for estimating pore pressure and formation fracture gradients.

Applications

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

Benefits

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.

Pore pressure calculation from sonic data using the Eaton method.

Features

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.

Training