Geomechanics integrates the knowledge on rock mechanics, geology, geophysics, petrophysics, and different engineering branches, to enhance the economic and safe development of resources present in conventional and non-conventional reservoirs. By assessing the rocks and soil mechanic properties under to different stress conditions, whether in their natural or altered state due to human-related activities such as drilling, stimulation, production or CO2 storage geomechanics allows to understand and anticipate subsurface behaviors.

 

Its application also enables resources extraction, the improvement of operational safety and efficiency enhancement, all of which translates into a significant reduction of risks and costs, and a projects’ enhanced performance.

 

The technical program will focus on the last breakthroughs and researches applied to rocks mechanics, and to geomechanics within the oil and gas industry. We therefore encourage the presentation of technical papers that integrate geosciences and engineering, with particular emphasis on interdisciplinary applications to different type of reservoirs to promote innovation and reinforce collaborative work in this field.

 

 

 

Subtopics

 

Conventional Reservoirs

• • Efforts, stability and well design assessment.

Non- Conventional Reservoirs

• • Drilling challenges: stability, design and construction of horizontal wells

 

Interdisciplinary topics

•  Temperature, acoustics and deformation measurement using fiber optics.

 

Referents:

 

• Brian Spindola, YPF
• Alejandro Nawratil, Capsa
• Agustín Sosa Massaro
• Damian Hryb, YPF
• Martín Paris, Consultor