Wellbore / Shale Creep
Mitigate the levels of creep and maintain stable openhole wellbores. Simulate the wellbore pressure and creep rate of the shale to ensure a good annular seal.
Elfen wellbore can assist in mitigating many of these risks in a self-contained easy to use User Interface bespoke for wellbore applications.
Many capabilities such as drilling stability, fines migration, completion systems, near wellbore fracture damage prediction due to perforation modelling and subsuequently injection and depletion along with the valuable aspect of being able to capture the onset of sanding.
The entire wellbore lifecycle can be simulated using Elfen Wellbore enabling Operators to mitigate risks
Features and Benefits
- Integration between log-based field data and FE modelling; insitu stresses and material properties can be mapped from 1d/3d MEM
- Robust modelling of complex phenomena with simple, intuitive and fast UI
- Log tool includes both predefined functions (e.g. MWW and polar plots) and a process editor for bespoke calculations
- Sophisticated material models capable of representing
- Orthotropy
- Poro-elasticity
- Rate dependency (creep)
- Multi-field (Mechanical, seepage, mass)
- Production prediction
- Tools aid managing and mitigating risk
- Address uncertainty (sensitivity assessment)
- Understanding of operating conditions and setting safety factors
Additional applications
Applications such as Shale Creep, Salt Closure and Decommissioning & Abandonement can also be simulated within the Elfen wellbore module.
Our Software
A standalone software application comprising multiple modules to model the wellbore and near wellbore throughout the life-of-the-well.
Elfen Wellbore
Elfen Advanced provides a full understanding of the stress regime, deformation, seismogenic zone, particle size prediction and production profile that results from the excavation of open pits, long wall mines or sub-level caves.
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