A Viscoplastic Stress Relaxation Model for Predicting Variations of the Least Principal Stress With Depth in Unconventional Reservoirs

Mark D Zoback, Stanford Univ, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, Shaochuan Xu, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Fatemeh Rassouli, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States and Xiaodong Ma, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States