Book Review

摘要

Reservoir Geomcchanics deals with the mechanical response of reservoir rocks to fluid production and/or injection. The book is a pedagogical blend of concepts, theory, techniques, and applications, drawing on the author's expertise in deep scientific drilling projects, hydrocarbon reservoirs, and geothermal reservoirs. It is based on a graduate class offered to engineers, geologists, and geophysicists aiming to manage the geomechanical aspects of a reservoir. As stated in the jacket of the book, 'This interdisciplinary book encompasses the fields of rock mechanics, structural geology, and petroleum engineering to address a wide range of geomechanical problems that arise during the exploitation of oil and gas reservoirs'. The theme running throughout the book is the importance of quantitatively estimating the stress state in a reservoir because it influences failure, which can be a desired outcome for stimulating production in low-permeability reservoirs or (perhaps more frequently) an undesired outcome in the case of wellbore failure.