A geomechanical model for predicting the collapse of a carbonate formation

Abstract

It is a study where a Time-Implicit model is developed to predict the collapse of a carbonate formation in a mature field using reservoir data from Indiana, USA. There are case studies in the literature where sand control and prediction methods are applied to carbonate formations due to the limited information available for the latter. In this work, the prediction method using a hydromechanical model for sands (Stavropoulou, Papanastasiou, & Vardoulakis, 1998) evaluating its reliability in carbonates formations.