Tensile Fractures

Tensile fractures or drilling induced tensile fracture are wellbore failures that could occur due to the concentration of stress around the wellbore and especially when the mud weight exceeded the tensile strength of the rock. The orientation of this features will greatly depend on the inclination of the wellbore and the in-situ stress regime. Knowing that, for vertical wells, orientation of tensile fractures will be parallel to SHmax. Temperature effects such as the cooling of the wellbore walls also could induce these types of fractures.

The tensile fracture editor allows you to create, edit, or import tensile fracture information. When importing, the custom column based .txt file is available. Information about the tensile fracture such as: fracture depth, orientation, inclination (omega), and fracture height can be imported. This information can be used in the Get Stress 1 or Get Stress 2 workflow.