Patent ID: 8374836

Claim:
A method for developing a subterranean geomechanical model of a complex geological environment, comprising: calculating, using a microprocessor, a pore pressure field, a stress field, a geomechanics property field, and a geological structure field from a geological concept model using information or data received from a user or a well database; geostatistically interpolating, using the microprocessor, scalars, vectors and tensors from the calculated pore pressure field, the stress field, the geomechanics property field, and the geological structure field; constructing, using the microprocessor, a geostatistical geomechanical model of the geological environment from combined results from the calculated pore pressure field, the stress field, the geomechanics property field, and the geological structure field and the geostatistically interpolated scalars, vectors and tensors; and displaying the generated geostatistical geomechanical model of the geological environment to the user.