Product Description

This interdisciplinary book encompasses the fields of rock mechanics, structural geology and petroleum engineering to address a wide range of geomechanical problems that arise during the exploitation of oil and gas reservoirs. It considers key practical issues such as prediction of pore pressure, estimation of hydrocarbon column heights and fault seal potential, determination of optimally stable well trajectories, casing set points and mud weights, changes in reservoir performance during depletion, and production-induced faulting and subsidence. The book establishes the basic principles involved before introducing practical measurement and experimental techniques to improve recovery and reduce exploitation costs. It illustrates their successful application through case studies taken from oil and gas fields around the world. This book is a practical reference for geoscientists and engineers in the petroleum and geothermal industries, and for research scientists interested in stress measurements and their application to problems of faulting and fluid flow in the crust.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #476422 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 464 pages

Review
'A major advantage of the book is…in that it provides an excellent crossover between aspects of structural geology and reservoir engineering - a link that is all too often overlooked. …It is customary to have an 'ah but …', bit towards the end, but I genuinely have very few quibbles with this book. … I would recommend it to any geologist working in a situation where faults or fractures interact with the present-day stress field.' Tim Needham, Needham Geoscience, Illkley

'… a very comprehensive and complete book spanning all the aspects of stress within the accessible Earth. … It is particularly useful in the fields of oil industry, geothermics and seismic hazard.' Tectonophysics

'… a strong and authoritative treatment … Professor Zoback's book will be a valued guide and reference to geoscientists and engineers …' International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences

About the Author
Mark Zoback is the Benjamin M. Page Professor of Earth Sciences and Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Geophysics at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of approximately 250 published research papers, primarily on the state of stress in the Earth's crust and geomechanics. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the European Union of Geosciences, and the winner of the 2006 Emil Wiechert Medal from the German Geophysical Society.