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    • 26. 发明专利
    • METHOD OF DETERMINING IN-SITU STRESSES
    • MY123277A
    • 2006-05-31
    • MYPI9902814
    • 1999-07-05
    • SHELL INT RESEARCH
    • KENTER CORNELIS JANMUNSTER JOHANNES GERARDUS VANPESTMAN BAREND JAN
    • E21B49/02E21C49/00E21B49/00E21C39/00G01N29/14G01N33/24
    • A METHOD IS PROVIDED OF DETERMINING AN IN-SITU STRESS OF AN EARTH FORMATION (3) SUBJECTED TO FIRST, SECOND AND A THIRD IN-SITU STRESSES, WHEREIN A BOREHOLE (1) HAS BEEN DRILLED INTO THE FORMATION, THE BOREHOLE (1) CONTAINING A BOREHOLE FLUID (7) INDUCING A SELECTED PRESSURE TO THE BOREHOLE WALL SO THAT IN A REGION (14) OF THE FORMATION (3) THE FIRST IN-SITU STRESS IS REPLACED BY ANOTHER STRESS DEPENDING ON SAID SELECETED PRESSURE INDUCED TO THE BOREHOLE WALL. THE METHOD COMPRISES THE STEPS OF:- SELECTING A SAMPLE (16) WHICH HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM SAID REGION (14), THE SAMPLE (16) HAVING FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD REFERENCE DIRECTIONS (18,20,22) WHICH COINCIDE WITH THE RESPECTIVE DIRECTIONS OF THE FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD IN-SITU STRESSES PRIOR TO REMOVAL OF THE SAMPLE (16) FROM THE FORMATION (3); AND - CONDUCTING A PLURALITY OF TESTS ON THE SAMPLE (16) WHEREBY IN EACH TEST THE SAMPLE (16) IS SUBJECTED TO SELECTED STRESSES IN THE REFERENCE DIRECTIONS (18,20,22) SO AS TO DETERMINE A DAMAGE ENVELOPE OF THE SAMPLE (16) AND TO DETERMINE FROM THE DAMAGE ENVELOPE AT LEAST ONE OF THE SECOND AND THIRD IN-SITU STRESSES, WHEREIN THE MAGNITUDE OF THE SELECTED STRESS IN THE FIRST REFERENCE DIRECTION (18) IS SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO THE MAGNITUDE OF SAID ANOTHER STRESS.(FIG. 1)