PetE 520

Energy Rock Engineering


Description

Rock Mechanics plays a crucial role in addressing significant issues in reservoir and wellbore engineering across the petroleum, geothermal, and carbon storage sectors. Topics include wellbore stability, sand
production, hydraulic fracturing, and wellbore and caprock integrity, among others. This course aims to introduce the fundamentals of rock mechanics and their application in describing and predicting various phenomena.

Learning Outcomes

- Understand basic concepts in rock mechanics.
- Understand how to assess mechanical rock properties from laboratory testing and well logs.
- Understand the concept of in situ stress and its assessment.
- Calculate stress distribution around boreholes.
- Apply rock mechanics knowledge for wellbore engineering issues such as wellbore stability, sand production, hydraulic fracturing, and wellbore integrity.
- Apply rock mechanics knowledge for reservoir and ground issues such as reservoir permeability and porosity evolution, caprock integrity, and land subsidence/heave in petroleum, geothermal and carbon storage engineering.

Lecture Seminar Lab Credits Total AU
3 0/1 0/1 3 37.8
M % NS % CS % ES % ED %

None defined

None defined



Undergraduate Program(s)


Sections & Respective Instructors

A1 - 2026/2027 - Fall - Alireza Nouri
A1 - 2025/2026 - Fall - Alireza Nouri
A1 - 2024/2025 - Fall - Alireza Nouri