In-Situ Stress Assessment

Stressed? The rock is!

Here are two symptoms of stress-related problems:
  • Spending 8% of your drilling budget coping with borehole instability and
    stuck pipe.
  • Early water breakthrough in your fractured reservoir.

If these apply to you then use the GeoScience Limited In-Situ Stress Assessment Service (ISSA) to understand the effects of in-situ stress in your field to save you money and enhance production. An accurate assessment of the in-situ stress for your reservoir can give you;

  • reduction in formation and borehole damage,
  • optimal field development strategy,
  • reduction in the number of wells lost to sand production,
  • and reduction in the number of wells lost to water breakthrough

The GeoScience In-Situ Stress Assessment Service will give you the best information about the state of stress in your field available by;

  • undertaking the in-situ stress assessment using all available field data,
  • determining the stress orientations by the analysis of image data, and
  • assessing the stress magnitudes from density logs, leakoff data and hydrofracture stress measurements.

As horizontal stresses are neither isotropic nor a simple function of the vertical stress our technique determines the stresses explicitly. Our past performance has demonstrated the validity of our approach over other methods.


GeoScience Limited: Services you can trust and experience you can rely on.

We have made stress assessments for many fields in the North Sea and around the world for projects involving borehole stability, sand production and hydraulic fracturing performance. In all cases our in-situ stress assessments have supported reliable predictions of performance.

If you would like to benefit from our experience or obtain further details please contact us.


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