DISCUSSION NAFTA CLUB «GEOMECHANICS»

Topic: Geomechanics

Date: October 13-14, 2022

Location: Kazan (Russia)

Participants: STC Gazprom Neft, Nafta College LLC, Sofoil LLC, Tatneft PJSC, TatNIPIneft JSC, Almetyevsk State Oil Institute, Oil and Gas Research Institute RAS, Innopolis University

Focus areas:

• the primary role of geomechanics within the Upsteram domain, geomechanics as a consumer and information supplier to related disciplines;
• geomechanical software development options, including specialized platforms to accelerate workflows and provide assistance to new specialists;
• advantages of forecasting well productivity based on decompacted zone prediction with geomechanical models;
• theoretical elements of forecasting rock destruction, core experiments issues;
• ways to boost a well productivity by purposefully causing near-well reservoir destruction;
• combining geomechanical, hydraulic and diffusion modeling to forecast fractures;
• areas of potential collaboration between operating and service companies, engineering centers, and academic science in the development of geomechanics