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0.462 0.961 18.48 ure mud weight, As the dilling engineer for this You have asse

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0.462 0.961 18.48 ure mud weight, As the dilling engineer for this You have assembled the following mud weight data from 14,000 well project you have been asked to gather ofset wel data to build a pore pressure and fracture pressure plot for the well moming reports of a well that was dilled less than a mile away Depth Mud Weighkppg Pore Pressure ppg Frachure Gradiont ppg Ma Md weight p 11000 174 12500 179 1400017. 1 Assume that the mud weight used in offset well was 0 5ppg above the actual pore pressure 2 Usng Fracan Graden (Ben talan Metod, spreadew, caculate be Sach ro gadent n ppg ser each depth Assume zero ar gap and water depe). Use a safety factor of -0.5 peg below the calculiated Fracture Gradent for the maxinum mud weight coulation 4 Plot the pore pressure, mud weigh and tracaure gradiend v depth on a graph 6 Caloulate the theoreicaly deepest that the can be dited belore seting another string of casing arfece casing planed to be ser 6,000 MacBook Air 233 7 8

Explanation / Answer

Pore Pressure =0.052* mud weight *depth

1)0.052*9.5*2500= 1235

2)2964

3)3530.8

4)4284.8

5)5148

6)7020

7)8408

8)9323

9)10166

10)10857

11)11635

12)12168

13)12565

14)12885

Fracture pressure = fracture gradient * depth

1) 2402

2)5766

3)6727

4)7688

5)8649

6)9610

7)10090

8)10571

9)11056

10)11532

11)12012

12)12493

13)13454