The confined compressive strength (CCS) plays a vital role in drilling optimization. On the basis of Jizba's experimental results, a new CCS model considering the effects of the porosity and nonlinear characteristics with increasing confining pressure has been developed. Because the confining pressure plays a Fundamental role in determining the CCS of bottom-hole rock and because the theory of Terzaghi's effective stress principle is founded upon soil mechanics, which is not suitable for calculating the confining pressure in rock mechanics, the double effective stress theory, which treats the porosity as a weighting factor of the formation pore pressure, is adopted in this study. The new CCS model combined with the mechanical specific energy equation is employed to optimize the drilling parameters in two practical wells located in Sichuan basin, China, and the calculated results show that they can be used to identify the inefficient drilling situations of underbalanced drilling (UBD) and overbalanced drilling (OBD).
Acknowledgments
The work is Supported by the Open Fund (Number: PLN1421) of State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University, SWPU Science & Technology Fund (Number: 2013XJZ029), Sichuan Youth Science & Technology foundation (Number: 2014JQ0045), and Natural Science foundation of China (Number: 51134004).
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