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Selecting new locations for drilling in oil and gas fields characterized by risks and high costs which is required more accurate study to select locations to start operations and development plans with safe drilling where we should maintain wellbore pressure in a balanced state between pore pressure of the formation and fracture pressure to avoid overpressure which represents a major danger for drillers which leads to sudden kick and formation damage and there is a further possibility that a blow out could occur. It is therefore important to the oil industry to save more costs by selecting the more accurate location and appropriate mud weight which will be used during drilling operations based on pore pressure evaluations to be safer for drilling and development for the field. In this paper, we will provide an overview on pore pressure evaluation to available wells scattered in belayim land field for a better understanding pore pressure regime and its distribution in the study area based on corrected drilling exponent (Dxc) and wireline logs (Resistivity and Sonic logs) with representation the pore pressure values for Kareem Formation in the map to observe the horizontal pore pressure distributions through the study area which can control in determining better locations for next wells and development plans.

Pore Pressure, Eaton’s Equation, Drilling Exponent, Well Logs, Well Design

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