Wellbore instability causes 42% of all drilling downtime.

We apply comprehensive geomechanical modeling to your projects, understanding wellbore stability issues and recommending specific operational parameters to improve performance. We'll deliver optimal mud weights, more stable wellbore trajectories, and improved evaluation of stability in uncased wells and multilaterals over time. Overall, you'll:

• Spend less time on wellbore stability issues
• Maximize project profit
• Understand and minimize project risk

Specifically, we'll help:

• Optimize mud weight and casing designs
• Predict success probability quantitatively
• Recommend the best data acquisition programs
• Perform a Reality Check of wellbore stability predictions
• Integrate with other companies' real-time wellbore stability solutions

There is no safe mud window for the initially designed trajectory for the Gulf of Mexico well. The well failed to reach its target due to lost circulation at the bottom of the well.

A new trajectory designed using geomechanical modeling has a safe mud window between wellbore collapse and the fracture gradient. This well was successfully drilled.

Optimize Wellbore Trajectory Design and Mud Weight

Let us apply decades of geomechanical modeling experience to help you reveal trajectories with safe mud windows and iron-clad planning you can feel good about. We'll use our experience and innovative approaches to compute optimal mud weights.

Detailed analysis of cross sections of acoustic image data reveals anisotropic failure associated with weak shale layers. Modeling the observed development of wellbore breakouts in anisotropic shales provides rigorous constraints on mud weights required to control excessive failure.

Leverage the Latest Shale Stability Techniques

GMI experts can apply chemoporoelastic modeling to predict the effect of mud chemistry on shale stability as a function of time, and resolve weak bedding planes in shales by predicting the effect of changing wellbore trajectory and mud weight.

Profit through Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA)

We can even apply QRA to help understand and manage the wellbore stability issues at work in your project.

Predict the Feasibility of Under-balanced Drilling

Under-balanced drilling can be risky, but GMI's QRA will help you evaluate the feasibility of your well plan and choose the optimum trajectory.

With knowledge of the state of stress and bedding orientation, the dependence of mud weight on wellbore deviation can be determined and used to predict the optimal orientation necessary for successful completion of an extended-reach well.

Avoid Wellbore Stability Problems Caused by Weak Bedding Planes

Don't let weak bedding planes cause you to slip. GMI's specialists can quantitatively predict the effects of changing trajectory and mud weight on wellbore failure.