CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS
Current research areas:
The value of developing fields using contemporary drilling, completion and reservoir stimulation technology is increasingly being realized by the operators. The new technologies offer lower development costs, higher production rate and improved recovery. To be at the fore-front of these new technologies, the drilling, completion and reservoir stimulation group at the School of Oil & Gas Engineering, in collaboration with other partners, is conducting research activities in a wide range of projects under two main areas: Hydraulic Fracturing and Drilling System Optimisation.
- Hydraulic fracture initiation and propagation in geologically complex fields.
- Hydraulic fracture treatment optimisation.
- Multistage hydraulic fracturing.
- Naturally fractured reservoir stimulation.
- Reservoir stress characterization under uncertainties.
- Drilling system optimisaton by knowledge-based approach.
- Fatigue-tolerant drill string design.
- Drilling fluid design for enhanced time-dependent wellbore stability.
- Eliminating stuck-pipe problems by better muds and spotting fluids.
