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ABSTRACT: There are plenty of tight sand gas resources in west China. The depth of the target formation in this kind of resource
is usually as deep as 6000 to 7000 m, and it is usually under salt. Pore pressure prediction and wellbore stability analysis for a set of
wells has been performed. The top-table method was used to derive the pore pressure of the target wells from relevant offset wells.
Results of the pore pressure prediction for the target well with input data from offset wells are shown in Fig.1 in the middle track.
Because the stress pattern in this area is a reverse fault, the overburden gradient is taken as the fracture gradient. SFG calculated for
two different offset wells are shown on the left and right tracks respectively. The values of SFG calculated at the original location
of the offset well are visualized and compared with the value of SFG calculated using the top-table method at the target well. Based
on the resultant solution of SFG and FG calculated with top-table method from two different offset wells, the SFG and FG of the
target well are determined and. This work presents two case studies of safe mud design in sub-salt tight sand gas formations. The
results of the SFG and FG provide a best-practice and a useful reference for wellbore stability analyses in this region.
10km
6km
Well A1
Well A2
Well A0
Well B1 Well B0
A0 Salt
Salt
A2
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