Event type:
Workshop, Hybrid
Organised by:
Geological Society Events, Energy Group
Venue:
Hybrid In person at Burlington House and Virtual via Zoom
Event status:
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Date and location
25–26 March 2025.
This is a hybrid event, which can be attended in person at Burlington House, Piccadilly, or online via Zoom.
Event details
An assessment of the magnitude of the minimumin situtotal stress in rock formations is of major importance in various areas of petroleum engineering including wellbore stability and fracture geometry prediction in well stimulation applications. More recently, the Energy Transition requires full understanding of rock behaviour in terms of retention capacity.
It is clear the term 'fracture gradient' means different things to different sub-surface disciplines, which may result from terminology not being standardised but also because different disciplines refer to alternative aspects of stress measurements in boreholes.
This workshop aims to bring the exploration, drilling, stimulation & development communities together, to establish what we know, how to standardise terminology, and how to establish the state of the art and best practice.
Topics to be included:
- Field/outcrop observations and fundamentals of rock mechanics
- Leak-off tests (LOT) and Extended Leak-off tests (XLOT)
- Alternative estimates of in-situ stress
- Ben Eaton Tribute – pore and fracture pressure algorithms
- Geology/lithology and other influences on fracture gradient
- Static vs dynamic data
- Depleted Reservoirs and Stress Paths
- Fracture gradient in tectonically active regimes
- Fracture gradient in deviated wells
- Remote methods to predict fracture pressure
- Applications of fracture gradient measurements
Convenors:
Richard Swarbrick – University of Durham, UK (Retired)
Stephen O’Connor – Global GeoPressure Advice
Tony Addis – Addis and Yassir Ltd.
Johunn Figenschou – Three60 Energy
Tim Wynn – Tracs International Ltd.
Emma Tavener – Santos
Stephan Petmecky – CNOOC
Baidehi Mukherjee – Equinor
Keynotes
TBC
Call for abstracts
Abstracts are welcome before the deadline of 1 December 2024.
Submit an abstract
Registration
This event is currently in the 'Call for abstracts' phase. Once this is completed, registration will open.