Geomechanics Consulting
Lower cost and higher recovery—throughout the life of your asset
Assign your company's geomechanics and fracturing challenges to A&A, and let our high-level, seasoned consultants design the drilling and completion program that lowers cost and raises recovery, throughout the life of your asset.
Avasthi & Associates, Inc. (A&A) is an independent petroleum engineering consulting firm. A&A does not sell fracturing equipment, proppant, fracturing fluids/chemicals, or logging tools — our only business is expert technical consulting, which means our geomechanics and fracturing recommendations are never influenced by a stake in any particular vendor or technology.
The oil & gas industry loses billions of dollars every year, worldwide, to obstacles associated with drilling and completions practices in geologically complex and hostile environments. Designing the right drilling and completion program is crucial to minimizing costs and maximizing returns.
A&A provides state-of-the-art geomechanics consulting services, around the world, for oil & gas field asset development, evaluation, and optimization — to maximize oil and gas production rates and recovery, and to add value to our clients' oil and gas field assets.
Our experienced geomechanics and fracturing consultants work as part of project teams that may include geosciences specialists (geophysicists/seismic analysts, petrophysicists, geologists, and other geosciences professionals), reservoir and production engineers, reservoir-simulation engineers, facilities engineers, and other professionals, as needed, to meet the project objectives.
A&A's Geomechanics and Fracturing Services
The high-level, seasoned geomechanics and fracturing consultants of the A&A Consulting Team are available to provide state-of-the-art consulting services on your company's challenging geomechanics and fracturing projects, such as:
1. Planning, coordination, and training of fracturing operations
2. On-site supervision of fracturing operations
3. Oversight and training of engineers in fracturing operations
4. Monitoring fracturing parameters and pressures, and pre- and post-frac analyses
5. In-situ stress determination for resource recovery
6. On-site quality control, to ensure materials and metering capabilities
The geomechanics and fracturing consulting services we provide our clients, around the world, are described below:
In-Situ Stress Analysis
Subsurface, or in-situ, stress analysis is critical for defining fractured reservoirs and fully exploiting reserves.
Our experienced geomechanics consultants analyze interactions between the stress field, pore pressure, natural fractures, rock strength, mud weight, and borehole trajectory, and design drilling and completion programs that eliminate or minimize mechanical instabilities in the borehole.
Our services include:
• Recommending, planning, conducting, and supervising field experiments to determine in-situ stresses
• Evaluating, analyzing, and using oil and gas field in-situ stress data
• Evaluating and recommending new methods and technologies
• Managing laboratory and field projects at client or vendor facilities
• Monitoring joint-industry and cooperative research projects
Optimizing Well Configurations
Our high-level, seasoned geomechanics consultants are experienced in optimizing injection and production well configurations in waterflood and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects.
We add value to our clients' oilfield assets by maximizing utilization of injected fluid — such as in CO₂ water-alternating-gas (WAG) flooding EOR projects — to enhance oil production rates and recoveries.
Our experienced geomechanics consultants help clients optimize injector and producer configuration by:
• Analyzing existing in-situ stress data
• Recommending methods and technologies to acquire the required in-situ stress data
• Recommending, planning, conducting, and supervising field experiments to determine in-situ stresses
• Evaluating and analyzing in-situ stress data for planning purposes
Fracturing Stimulation
Our professional stimulation consultants are experienced in fracturing-stimulation design, evaluation, and optimization, to maximize oil and gas production rates and recoveries from oil and gas fields, and to add value to our clients' oil and gas field assets.
Our services include:
• Fracturing-stimulation design, matrix-acidizing, and scale-control studies
• Planning, conducting, and supervising laboratory, simulation, and field-trial fracturing projects
• Conducting research in the areas of fracturing, frac-packing, fracturing fluids, and proppants
• Planning and supervising fracturing experiments at client or vendor facilities
• Evaluating and recommending fracturing simulators, new methods, and technologies
• Managing stimulation projects
• Monitoring joint-industry and cooperative research projects
Wellbore Stability and Sand-Production Prediction
Wellbore instability causes drilling downtime. Our consultants apply comprehensive geomechanical modeling to your projects — understanding wellbore-stability issues and recommending specific operational parameters to improve performance.
Our high-level, seasoned geomechanics consultants are experienced in wellbore-stability and sand-production-prediction projects, to reduce oil and gas well drilling costs for our clients.
Our services include:
• Calculating wellbore stability and sand-production prediction (using log-based software)
• Determining in-situ stresses and rock properties (using log-based software)
• Recommending, planning, supervising, obtaining, and analyzing in-situ stress and rock-property data
• Planning and supervising geomechanics work at client or vendor facilities
• Managing geomechanics projects
Subsurface Waste Disposal
Our high-level, seasoned geomechanics and stimulation consultants are experienced in subsurface waste-disposal projects that significantly reduce waste-disposal costs for our clients.
Our services include:
• Analyzing subsurface waste disposal using fracturing-stimulation technology
• Evaluating and recommending the use of fracturing simulators
• Planning, conducting, and supervising laboratory, simulation, and field-trial projects
• Planning, conducting, and supervising fracturing experiments at client or vendor facilities
• Evaluating and recommending new methods and technologies
• Managing field projects
What A&A Delivers
A geomechanics/fracturing consulting engagement with the A&A Consulting Team is built around the practical decisions your company needs to make, including, but not limited to:
• An in-situ stress and geomechanical model supporting drilling, completion, and stimulation design
• A fracturing-stimulation design, with laboratory and field-trial support as needed
• Wellbore-stability and sand-production predictions to reduce drilling costs and downtime
• On-site supervision, quality control, and training for your field and engineering staff
• Presentation-ready recommendations for your company's management, partners, and investors
To put the high-level, seasoned geomechanics and fracturing consultants of the A&A Consulting Team to work on your company's challenging projects, around the world, please contact us (Contact@AvasthiConsulting.com) or click here.
