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Determination of in-situ principal stresses still represents a major challenge to the oil industry. Among the methods proposed to estimate horizontal stress magnitudes and directions is the inversion of results from leak-off tests. Previously published work with this method has been based on a procedure where all shear stress components were neglected. This paper presents a procedure based on the...