Abstract: A method of determining maximum stress in a well drilled in a reservoir, primarily a hydrocarbon reservoir, where there is at least one zone. Collapse regions are produced while drilling a well because the material of the wall of the well exceeds its maximum allowable stress, the material fractures and falls off, leaving a cavity. The caliper of the damaged zone is measured by devices that extend radially until coming into contact with the physical wall of the well. The disclosed method determines the maximum allowable stress based on the caliper measurements and other variables which are determinable.

Abstract: A computer implemented method is provided for generating a subsurface rock and/or fluid model on a determined domain. The subsurface rock and/or fluid model generated by the invention combines acoustic data and data obtained by an electromagnetic survey in such a way that the resulting model avoids the need of generating an image of the resistivity with the low resolution imposed by the known techniques inverting EM electromagnetic survey data.

Abstract: A computer implemented method including a numerical model of a region of the earth modeling the acoustic behavior of that region. The method implements an acoustic wave propagator allowing the simulation of the propagation of pure P-waves in transversal isotropic media. The propagator can be applied to applications such as seismic forward modeling, reverse time migration and other two-way wave-equation based applications.