Mostafa Magdy Elsayed Abdelhafiz

A global integrated model for a time-dependent wellbore stability prediction / نموذج عام متكامل للتنبؤ باستقرار حفرة البئر مع الوقت Mostafa Magdy Elsayed AbdelhHafiz ; Supervised Eissa Mohamed Shokir - Cairo : Mostafa Magdy Elsayed Abdelhafiz , 2016 - 94 P. : photographs ; 30cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Metallurgical Engineering

This work presents an integrated wellbore stability model using well log data and a time dependent poroelastic model. An iterative approach was build using MATLAB to determine the optimum wellbore trajectory and safe mud window. Mechanical earth model was constructed using log data. Wellbore stresses were determined using the poroelastic constitutive model. Modified Lade Criterion was used to determine the failure conditions of the wellbore walls. The results of the developed model were validated against actual well log data from gulf of Suez, Egypt



Mechanical earth model Rock mechanics Wellbore stability