Gain crucial understanding of your reservoir's stress field. Minimize Wellbore Stability problems. Optimize hydraulic fracture design. Maximize production.

In-Situ Stress Analysis Forward modeling of inclined drilling-induced tensile wall fractures, allows for assessment of the stress state around a wellbore and the tendency for compressive and tensile wellbore failure. Stress modeling is fully three-dimensional for both compressional (wellbore breakouts) and tensile (tensile wall fractures) failure and can incorporate thermal effects as well as rock strength anisotropy due to a wellbore intersecting potentially weak bedding planes. Recent enhancements include the implementation of thermoporoelastic, poroelastic, and chemoporoelastic rock models to enable evaluation of time-dependent effects on stability from mud/rock interactions.

Get a Handle on Stress, In-Situ and Otherwise

GMI's Stress and Failure of Inclined Boreholes (GMI•SFIB) software provides fully three-dimensional stress modeling for both wellbore breakouts and tensile wall fractures. Forward modeling of inclined drilling-induced tensile wall fractures allows for assessment of the stress state around a wellbore. It also reveals tendency for compressive and tensile wellbore failure.

With GMI•SFIB, you can get down to uncommon and uncommonly profitable modeling detail. Incorporate thermal effects. Take into account rock strength anisotropy in the context of weak bedding planes, and employ thermoporoelastic, poroelastic, and chemoporoelastic rock models for time-dependent effects on stability from mud/rock interactions.

GMI•SFIB's powerful displays speed determination of optimal mud weights. Its intuitive decision tools reveal how changes in wellbore trajectory, rock strength, and mud weight affect wellbore stability.

Optimize Well Design and Reservoir Production

Our unique software delivers critical knowledge of the stress field crucial for solving wellbore stability issues, optimizing hydraulic fracture design, and maximizing production. It lets engineers and geologists collaborate to design optimally stable wellbore trajectories and determine optimal mud weights to prevent excessive and costly wellbore failures and sidetracks, and eliminate intermediate casing strings. Drilling and reservoir engineers can use existing well data to aid in future well design and optimize reservoir production.

More effective early well planning, more comprehensive data usage, and powerful proprietary technology make this package a must for cutting costly rig time and wasted efforts.

Analyze and Minimize Your Project Risk

GMI•SFIB's Quantitative Risk Assessment module helps you make the best possible business decisions for your reservoir, presenting success probability as a function of equivalent mud weight, and showing which variables most impact risk