Well Planning outside of the Gulf of Mexico - NCT’s, Overburden and Fracture Gradient

The use of empirical relationships derived in the Gulf of Mexico to predict shale pore pressure and fracture pressures will lead, potentially, to inaccurate definition of the drilling window and future well control problems in wells in other basins. A more robust and defensible approach is to use/derive relationships based on rock properties under-pinned by understanding the geology of the basin.