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Advanced Pore Pressure Prediction Workshop: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Workflows
Format and Duration:
4 days
This advanced, hands-on workshop gives participants a strong understanding of the processes that generate overpressure in multiple dimensions and experience in predicting pressure and fracture gradient. The course evaluates the approaches to estimate trap integrity and linkages between pore pressure prediction and basin modeling. Participants also develop a greater understanding of pore pressure prediction in different tectonic environments (e.g. unconventional, thrust, and salt settings).
Business Impact: Application of the learnings of this course will provide participants with a strong understanding of the processes associated with overpressure, pressure prediction and fracture gradient. These key concepts that will allow subsurface professionals to increase the likelihood of exploration success and decrease drilling and development costs.
Feedback
Great refresher in pore pressure information. Loved the handout exercises as it made you pay attention and follow along.
Schedule
Duration and Training Method
This is a four-day classroom course, which intersperses lectures with frequent practical exercises, and the use of web-based software and Excel worksheets to reinforce concepts. Approximately 60% of the course time is spent on lectures and 40% on PC-based exercises.
Course Overview
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn to:
- Characterize pressure based on limited data.
- Predict pore pressure in one dimension using multiple approaches.
- Predict pore pressure in two- and three-dimensions using centroid approaches.
- Interpret and model fracture gradient.
- Predict trap integrity by applying pore pressure concepts.
- Evaluate how basin modeling is used to predict pressure.
- Predict pressure in thrust belt environments.
- Predict pressure in unconventional basins.
- Assess the challenges of pore pressure prediction near salt.
Course Content
This advanced workshop covers:
- Characterization of pore pressure, overburden, and fracture gradient
- Petrophysical pore pressure prediction
- Seismic-based pore pressure prediction
- Estimation of trap integrity
- Mechanical seal
- Capillary seal
- Compositional and mineralogical controls on shale compaction
- Workflows for predicting pressure in 2- and 3-dimensions
- Protected trap analysis
- Centroid-based pressure prediction
- Techniques for predicting sand and shale pressures
- Basin modeling and pore pressure prediction
- Principles and assumptions
- Input requirements
- Output results
- Limitations of existing software/data
- Predicting pore pressure and stress in different environments
- Compressional regimes
- Unconventional (shale) basins
- Salt environments
- Well Design
- Choosing intermediate casing points and mud programs
- Choosing appropriate mudweights for control of shallow water flow
- Drilling implications
- Predicting wellbore under-balance and lost circulation situations
- Limits of current petrophysical and seismic prediction / detection techniques
Who Should Attend and Prerequisites
Geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, drilling engineers, and other subsurface technical staff who want to develop additional expertise in the latest techniques of predicting pore pressure and fracture gradients at the well scale and the basin scale. Attendees should ideally have a minimum of 2 years' experience in pore pressure prediction.
Instructors
Peter Flemings
Background
Dr. Peter B. Flemings is a professor and holder of the Jackson Chair in Geosystems with the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Texas, Austin. Prior to joining U.T., Peter held positions at Penn State, MIT, and Columbia University. Peter has studied fluid flow and the analysis of geopressure for over 25 years.
Peter has led a research consortium, GeoFluids, for more than 15 years. He works closely with industry and academic colleagues to shed new insight into problems of overpressure and basinal fluid flow. Many of his past graduate students now play important roles in the analysis of pore pressure and stress in the energy industry. Peter focusses on the study of pressure and stress in two- and three-dimensional geological systems.
Peter has consulted internationally, and he served as an advisor to the Secretary of Energy’s well-integrity team during the BP Macondo well failure. He has published more than 85 papers.
Affiliations and Accreditation
PhD Cornell University
MSc Cornell University - Geology
BSc Dartmouth College - Geology
Courses Taught
N249: Advanced Pore Pressure Prediction Workshop: Concepts, Mechanisms and Workflows
Accreditation and Certification
CEU: 2.8 Continuing Education Units
PDH: 28 Professional Development Hours
Certificate: Certificate Issued Upon Completion
RPS is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. We comply with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognised internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices.
We issue a Certificate of Attendance which verifies the number of training hours attended. Our courses are generally accepted by most professional licensing boards/associations towards continuing education credits. Please check with your licensing board to determine if the courses and certificate of attendance meet their specific criteria.