Foundations of Geomechanics for Petroleum Engineering

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Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Reservoir fluids and rocks and their physical behavior; porous media and fracture flow models; constitutive modeling; influence of rock deformability, fluid pressure and temperature, stress, pore pressure, effective stress, poroelasticity; applications to wellbore stability, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir compaction. Prerequisite: PETE 311 .