An approach for predicting stress-induced anisotropy around a borehole

Author:

Fang Xinding1,Fehler Michael1,Zhu Zhenya1,Chen Tianrun2,Brown Stephen1,Cheng Arthur2,Toksöz M. Nafi1

Affiliation:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA..

2. Halliburton, Houston, Texas, USA..

Abstract

Formation elastic properties near a borehole may be altered from their original state due to the stress concentration around the borehole. This could result in a biased estimation of formation properties but could provide a means to estimate in situ stress from sonic logging data. To properly account for the formation property alteration, we propose an iterative numerical approach to calculate stress-induced anisotropy around a borehole by combining a rock physics model and a finite-element method. We tested the validity and accuracy of our approach by comparing numerical results to laboratory measurements of the stress-strain relation of a sample of Berea sandstone, which contains a borehole and is subjected to a uniaxial stress loading. Our iterative approach converges very fast and can be applied to calculate the spatially varying stiffness tensor of the formation around a borehole for any given stress state.

Publisher

Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Subject

Geochemistry and Petrology,Geophysics

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