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Geomechanical Model
- 2006 Brehm, Andy and Chris Ward, Understanding Leads to Stability, Hart's E&P, November 2006, pg. 89.
- 2005 Brehm, Andy and Chris Ward, Pre-Drill Planning Saves Money, Hart's E&P , May 2005, page 81.
- 2002 Castillo, D. A., P. Ryles, and K. John, The Legendre Field
Development and Geomechanical Program: From Exploration to Drilling
to Production, in proceedings IADC/SPE Asia Pacific Drilling Technology
Conference, Sept. 9-11, 77255.
- 2001 Raaen, A.M., and M. Brudy, Pump-in/Flowback Tests Reduce the
Estimate of Horizontal In Situ Stress Significantly, SPE 71367.
- 2001 Brudy, M. and H. Kjørholt, Stress orientation on the
Norwegian continental shelf derived from borehole failures observed
in high-resolution borehole imaging logs, Tectonophysics, v.337, pp.65-84.
- 2001 Finkbeiner, T., M.D. Zoback, P. Flemings, and B. Stump, Stress, pore
pressure and dynamically constrained hydrocarbon columns in the South Eugene
Island 330 Field, northern Gulf of Mexico, AAPG Bulletin, v.85, no.6, pp. 1007-1031.
- 2001 Grollimund, B., M.D. Zoback, D. Wiprut, and L. Arnesen, Stress orientation,
pore pressure, and least principal stress in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea,
Petroleum Geoscience, v.7, pp.173-180.
- 2001 Zoback, M.D., and J. Zinke, Production-induced normal faulting in the
Valhall and Ekofisk oil fields, Pure and Applied Geophysics, in press.
- 2000 Castillo, D.A., and D. Moos, Reservoir Geomechanics Applied to Drilling
and Completion Programs in Challenging Formations: Northwest Shelf, Timor Sea, North
Sea and Colombia, APPEA Journal, February 16, pp. 509-521.
- 2000 Townend, J., and M.D. Zoback, How faulting keeps the crust strong, Geology,
v.28, no.5, pp. 399-402.
- 2000 Wolhart, S.L., S. Berumen, C.L. Cipolla, C.A. Barton, and P.T. Branagan, Use
of Hydraulic Fracture Diagnostics to Optimize Fracturing Jobs in the Arcabuz-Culebra
Field, 2000 SPE Rocky Mountain Regional/Low Permeability Reservoirs Symposium, Denver,
CO, March.
- 1998 Finkbeiner, T. and M.D. Zoback, In-situ stress and pore pressure in the South
Eugene Island field, Gulf of Mexico, SPE/ISRM Eurock '98, Trondheim, Norway, July 8-10.
- 1997 Brudy, M., M. D. Zoback, K. Fuchs, F. Rummel, and J. Baumgärtner,
Estimation of the complete stress tensor to 8 km depth in the KTB scientific
drill holes: implications for crustal strength, J. Geophys. Res., v.102, no.8,
pp.18,453-18,475.
- 1990 Moos, D. and M.D. Zoback, Utilization of observations of well bore
failure to constrain the orientation and magnitude of crustal stresses: Application
to continental, Deep Sea Drilling Project and ocean drilling program boreholes, J.
Geophys. Res., v.95, pp. 9305-9325.
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Sand Production Prediction
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Pore Pressure Prediction
- 2000 Grollimund, B., and M.D. Zoback, Post Glacial Lithospheric Flexure
and Induced Stresses and Pore Pressure Changes in the Northern North Sea,
Tectonophysics, v.327, no.1-2, pp. 61-81.
- 2000 Ward, C.D., and M. Beique, Pore and Fracture Pressure Information
from PWD data, AADE Drilling Technology Forum, Best Available Practical
Drilling Technology-The Search Continues, Houston, TX, February.
- 1998 Ward, C.D., and Clark, R., Anatomy of a Ballooning Borehole
using PWD tool, presented at the Workshop on Overpressure, Pao, France, April.
- 1997 Mazzoni, T., T. Wahdan, A. Bassem, and C.D. Ward, Real-time pore and fracture
pressure prediction with FEWD in the Nile Delta, presented at the SPE/IADC Conference,
SPE 37669, Amsterdam, March.
- 1997 Ward, C.D., and Andreassen, E., Pressure while drilling data improve
reservoir drilling performance, presented at the SPE/IADC Drilling Conference,
SPE 37588, Amsterdam, March.
- 1997 Ward, C.D., and E. Andreassen, Pressure-While-Drilling Data Improve
Drilling Performance, Journal of Petroleum Technology, February, pp. 158-159.
- 1996 Ward, C. D., Pressure while drilling, The Pulser (International MWD Society)
Magazine, pp. 1-3.
- 1995 Ward, C.D., Evidence for sediment unloading caused by fluid expansion over
pressure generating mechanisms, presented at the Workshop on Stess in the North Sea,
Norwegian Technical Institute, Tronheim, Norway.
- 1995 Ward, C.D., K. Coghill, M.D. Broussard, Pore- and Fracture-Pressure
Determinations: Effective-Stress Approach, Journal of Petroleum Technology, pp.
1123-1124, September.
- 1994 Ward, C.D., K. Coghill, M,D. Broussard, The application of petrophysical
data to improve pore and fracture pressure determination in North Sea Central Graben
HPHT wells, presented at the 69th SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, SPE
28297, New Orleans, LA, September.
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Fractured Reservoirs
- 2007, Dwi Hudya F., Sandra Natalia, and David Castillo, The Effect of Pressure Depletion on Geomechanical Stress and Fracture Behavior in Gunung Kembang Field, in proceedings of Indonesian Petroleum Association, Thirty-first Annual Convention and Exhibition, May 2007.
- 2002 Barton, C. A., and M. D. Zoback: Discrimination of Natural Fractures From
Drilling-Induced Wellbore Failures in Wellbore Image Data--Implications for Reservoir
Permeability" SPE 78599, in "SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering", June. (in press).
- 1997 Finkbeiner, T., C.A. Barton, and M.D. Zoback, Relationships among in-situ stress,
fractures and faults, and fluid flow: Monterey Formation, Santa Maria Basin, California, AAPG
Bulletin, v.81, no.12, pp. 1975-1999.
- 1995 Barton, C.A., M.D. Zoback and D. Moos, Fluid flow along potentially active faults
in crystalline rock, Geology, v.23, no.8, pp. 683-686.
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Wellbore Stability
- 2002 Chang, C., and M.D. Zoback, Viscous Creep in Dry Unconsolidated Gulf of Mexico
Shale, EOS Trans., AGU, Fall.
- 2002 Grollimund, B., C. Ward, A. Medina, and C. Cobos, Application of Geomechanics
in Well Design in the Plataforma Deltana Area Offshore Venezuela, in Proceedings of
the XI Congresso Venezelano de Geoffsica, November.
- 2002 Moos, D., P. Peska, T. Finkbeiner, and M.D. Zoback, Comprehensive Wellbore
Stability Analysis Utilizing Quantitative Risk Assessment, in Journal of Petroleum
Science and Engineering, Special issue on Wellbore Stability, in press.
- 2002 Ritter, D.G., B. Grollimund, and S. L. Zoller, Wellbore Stability in
the Deepwater Bijupira-Salema Fields, Offshore Brazil - A Probabilistic Approach.
SPE/ISRM #78217, Irving, Texas, Oct. 20-23.
- 2002 Salamy, Salam P., and Thomas Finkbeiner, A poroelastic analysis to address
the impact of depletion rate on wellbore stability in openhole horizontal completions,
in Proceedings of the 10th Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference,
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 13-16, pp. 1-11.
- 2001 Moos, D., Wellbore stability in deep water - Handling geomechanical uncertainty,
AADE#01-NC-HO-43, AADE 2001 National Drilling Conference, "Drilling Technology-The Next
100 Years", Houston, TX.
- 2001 Zoback, M. D., and J. C. Zinke, Production-induced normal faulting in the Valhall
and Ekofisk oil fields, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 159, pp. 403-420.
- 2000 Wiprut, D., and M.D. Zoback, Constraining the full stress tensor in the Visund
field, Norwegian North Sea: Application to wellbore stability and sand production, Intl.
J. Rock Mech. & Min. Sci., v.37, pp. 317-336.
- 1998 Barton, C.A., D.A. Castillo, D. Moos, P. Peska, and M.D. Zoback, Characterising
the Full Stress Tensor Based on Observations of Drilling-Induced Wellbore Failures in
Vertical and Inclined Boreholes Leading to Improved Wellbore Stability and Permeability
Prediction, APPEA Journal, pp. 466-488.
- 1998 Ward, C. D., The race to the reservoir: Maximizing penetration rates, presented
at the SPE Asia Pacific Drilling Forum, Bali, Indonesia, October.
- 1997 Barton, C.A., D. Moos, P. Peska, and M.D. Zoback, Utilizing wellbore image data
to determine the complete stress tensor: Application to permeability anisotropy and
wellbore stability, The Log Analyst, pp. 21-33.
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Petrophysical Log Analysis
- 2001 Qobi, Latifa, X.M. Tang, Andre De Kuijper, and Jonathan Strauss, Permeability
determination from Stoneley waves in the Ara Group, Oman, GeoArabia Journal, v.6, n.4.
- 2000 Khaksar, A., et al., calibrating Core, log & seismic data to assess
effective stress & hydrobarbon saturation, Cooper basin, South Australia,
presented at APPEA 2000.
- 1999 Khaksar, A. and C.M. Griffiths, Influence of effective stress on the
acoustic velocity and log derived porosity, SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, 2(1), 69-72.
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Fault Seal Analysis
- 2003 Grollimund, B. et al., Impact of glacially induced stress changes on
fault-seal integrity offshore Norway, AAPG Bulletin.
- 2002 Wiprut, D., and M. D. Zoback, Fault reactivation, leakage
potential, and hydrocarbon column heights in the northern North Sea,
Hydrocarbon Seal Quantification (NPF Special Publication), v. 11,
pp. 203-219.
- 2000 Wiprut, D., and M.D. Zoback, Fault reactivation and fluid
flow along a previously dormant normal fault in the northern North
Sea, Geology, v.28, no.7, pp. 595-598.
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