Final Questions

1- Question about Rock testing ‫الورق الي صورناه‬

and (uniaxial & triaxial) from (ch9)
2- What you know about: -
1- Young’s Modulus.
2- Poison ratio.
3- Shear modulus.
4- Types of rock failure criteria.
5- Benefits due to petroleum rock mechanics.
6- Effect of anisotropic or mechanical properties.
7- Borehole collapse & borehole fracture.
8- Mud window.
9- Formation pressure.
10- Porous rocks.
11- Effective stresses.
12- Main reasons for determine in-situ stresses.
13- Explain how can you estimate or calculate in-situ
stresses.
14- Relations between maximum and minimum
stresses.

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1- Estimate in-situ stresses (Ch8).
2- Flowchart showing the process sequence for
wellbore design and stability analysis (Ch11).
3- Estimate insitu stresses due to Wellbore fracturing
pressure and Wellbore collapse pressure (Ch11).
4- Fundamental analysis of stresses around wellbore
Page 159 (10.5.2 &10.5.3) (Ch10).
5- Explain direct and indirect methods (ch8).

4- Plot:-
1- Figure 8.1 Rock formation in-situ principal stresses
for a drilled vertical well.
2- Figure 1.3 Three-dimensional stress state of a cube.
3- Figure 7.1 Macroscopic classification of materials in
terms of their homogeneity and isotropy. (4 Figures)
4- Figure 7.2 General problem, inclined wellbore
oriented differently from the principal in-situ stresses
and the bedding plane of anisotropic rock.

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5- Figure 7.4 Geometry of the horizontal wellbore in
sedimentary rock. The constraint is that the borehole
axis must extend along the bedding plane, as well as one
of the principal stresses.
6- Figure 7.18 Local stress and pore pressure in a
porous rock.
7- Figure 8.3 Three possible principal stress orientation.
8- Figure 9.1 Possible wellbore instability problems
during drilling.
9- Figure 9.5 Schematic showing loading
arrangements for rock strength laboratory testing;

5- Discuss
1- Stress of vertical wellbore (Bounds on the in-situ stresses).
2- Wellbore instability (Borehole fracturing and collapse).

6- Example 5.1 & Example 7.1 & Example 8.1.

7- Problem from (Applied Drilling Engineering) Page 205 to 208

Or Problem 5.6 Page 242.

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