Group of Technology in Energy and Petroleum
Development of Geomechanical Solution for the Energy and Oil Sectors
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Departament of Civil and Environmental Engineering
We have been working in geomechanical modeling analyses and laboratory tests for more than 30 years.
Geomechanical Solutions
Wellbore Construction
Thorough geomechanical analyses of wellbore stability, wellbore drilling with PDC bits, wellbore hydraulics, casing integrity, and wellbore abanddonment.
Reservoir Geomechanics
Experimental evaluation of shale and salt mechanical behavior under different confining stresses and temperatures.
Rock Caverns
Evaluation of caverns generation, rock deformation, stress concentration and challenges to well integrity in the long term.
Geological and Geomechanical Model
Build reservoir and overburden geological models populated with rock propeties, in situ stresses and pore fluid.
Rock Laboratory Tests
Petrophysical analyses, PDC, cutters rock cutting, High Temperature High Pressre (HTTP) triaxial and creep tests.
Digital Rock Ananysis
Laboratory evaluation of rock mechanical behavior, stress-strain envelope, failure criteria and constitutive models parameter calibration.
Coding
Development of user-friendly and customized geomechanical softwares.
Courses
Providing of courses from basic to advanced in geomechanical knowledge.
Coding
Development of user-friendly and customized geomechanical softwares.
Analyses
Building of workflow analyses and modeling of geomechanical problems.
Our Partners
The oil companies are our Partners in the research projects.
Petrobras
Shell
Equinor
Petronas
Founder and Coordinator
Prof. Fontoura has over 40 years of experience in rock mechanics. Background in: civil engineering, mining and petroleum with an emphasis on rock mechanics. He works in reservoir geomechanics, casing integrity, well stability, shale behavior, reservoir engineering, slope stability and underground excavations.
Sergio A. B. da Fontoura
Former ISRM Vice-President for South America