Browsing by Author "Fahes, Mashhad"
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AN INVESTIGATION OF EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS REQUIRED TO STUDY HYDROCARBON PHASE BEHAVIOR UNDER CONSTANT VOLUME AND CONSTANT COMPOSITION CONDITIONS
Cholkar, Abhijeet (2016)Accurate fluid phase behavior evaluation is essential for reservoir engineers to predict the type of reservoir, oil and gas in place, and develop proper production strategies. The change in phase behavior and phase equilibrium ... -
INVESTIGATION OF OILWELL CEMENT MIXING: EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR MIXING ENERGY THEORY
Karbalaei Saleh, Fatemeh (2018-05-11)Cement is a key element of wellbore integrity. Mixing condition for cement and how its properties are affected is of great importance but often ignored in the oilwell cement design. Typical cement slurry properties such ... -
INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON LOW-SALINITY WATERFLOODING
Mansi, Mohamed (2019-08-01)Even though Low-Salinity Waterflooding (LSW) has been under investigation as a promising Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technique for almost three decades, most of the studies in the literature are focused on investigating ... -
Laboratory Characterization of Reservoir Stimulation and Heat Extraction with Application to EGS
Hu, Lianbo (2019-12)Enhanced or engineered geothermal systems (EGS) could enable extraction of significant geothermal energy from hot relatively dry rock reservoirs. However, issues related to reservoir creation in different type of rocks and ... -
MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF THE DESTABILIZATION OF ACID IN CRUDE OIL EMULSIONS USING POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION
El-Fouly, Shams El-Din (2019-08)In this current work, a phenomenological mathematical model that utilizes the population balance equation was developed to understand the destabilization process of acid in crude oil emulsions in laboratory conditions. The ... -
MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE LARGE SCALE HYDRAULIC FRACTURES IN ANISOTROPIC ROCK
Sesetty, Varahanaresh (2018-12-14)Shales and mudstones tend to exhibit strong anisotropy so that assuming mechanical isotropy in wellbore failure analysis and completion design strategies in shale can lead to inaccurate results. This dissertation focuses ... -
Multiscale modeling of fractured reservoir stimulation and induced seismicity
Lu, Jianrong (2020-12-18)Natural fractures and fracture networks characteristics significantly influence the success of reservoir stimulations. Subsurface and surface investigations consider various geophysical techniques to probe and measure ... -
ON THE FATE OF THE FRACTURING FLUID AND ITS IMPACT ON LOAD RECOVERY AND WELL PERFORMANCE
Mehana, Mohamed (2016-08-01)The complexity of the shale system coupled with the mystery of low fracturing fluid recovery has puzzled many researchers. Field reports from hydraulic fracturing operations performed on shale formations have highlighted ... -
PORE-NETWORK MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF LABORATORY INDUCED HYDRAULIC FRACTURES
Agrawal, Abhishek (2018-05)Well stimulation is undertaken to reduce the restriction to flow in a reservoir. Among all the well stimulation techniques, hydraulic fracturing is one of the most widely employed techniques due to the development of shale ... -
PREDICTIONS OF CRITICAL GAS RATES IN HORIZONTAL AND DEVIATED WELLS
El Fadili, Youness (2015-05)The author’s intent through this work is to shed light on the current methods of predicting the onsets of liquid loading and to clarify that there is a difference in critical gas rate predictions between horizontal and ... -
PROPPANT FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING IN DEFORMABLE HYDRAULIC FRACTURE NETWORKS
Gonzalez Lopez, Ruben Alberto (2018)The objective of the hydraulic fracturing stimulation is to create a large volume of fractured rock with enhanced permeability. The effectiveness of a hydraulic fracturing stimulation depends on maintaining the created ... -
Quantification of recovery factors in downspaced shale wells
Sinha, Saurabh (2016-12-16)Well spacing optimization in horizontal multi-fractured wells is the center of field development. Unconventional reservoirs due to the low matrix permeability cannot produce without the help of hydraulic fracturing. Unlike ... -
Quantifying the Effect of De-Emulsifiers on Acid Treatment in Carbonate Formations
Elsafih, Mohamed; Fahes, Mashhad; Teodoriu, Catalin (2021-02-21)Matrix acidizing is a highly successful, effective, and relatively inexpensive approach to enhancing well productivity in carbonate formations. Accordingly, there has been little motivation to address the ways to optimize ... -
Quantifying the Impact of Asphaltene Precipitation on Sandstone Wettability
James Abraham, Jocin (2017-12)Asphaltene precipitation, and the resulting decline in oil production, has for long been identified as a severe problem in oil reservoirs. The deposition of these high molecular weight oil fractions in pore spaces have ... -
SCALE FORMATION IN POROUS MEDIA AND ITS IMPACT ON OIL RECOVERY
Hajirezaie, Sassan (2016-08-08)The objectives of this study include: (1) investigation of the chemical and thermodynamic mechanisms of scale formation in porous media and its impact on formation damage; (2) development of a model to predict permeability ... -
Study of CO2 Solubility in Brine and Mineralization in Mafic Basaltic Formations
Al Maqbali, Qais (2023-05)A huge amount of CO2 emissions should be mitigated for environmental benefits and to reach net zero by 2050. One method to mitigate these emissions is permanent CO2 sequestration through mineralization. CO2 can be mineralized ... -
Study of multicomponent of hydrocarbon systems with molecular dynamics simulation
Chang, Qiuhao (2022)Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation is a powerful tool used in various research fields such as petroleum, geoscience, biochemistry, physics, and materials science. The unique merit of MD simulation is that it can investigate ... -
Study towards improving the efficiency of matrix acidizing in oil-bearing carbonate formations
Elsafih, Mohamed Mustafa Elmabruk (2021-08)Matrix acidizing in carbonate formations is a common technique to improve well productivity. Since more than 60% of the world’s reservoir formations are carbonates, enhancing the process of acidizing can have a significant ... -
Three Dimensional Thermo-poroelastic Modeling of Fluid Injection and Induced Microseismicity in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Cheng, Qinglu (2018)Interests in naturally fractured reservoirs have grown rapidly in recent years due to the increasing energy needs. Understanding the behavior of naturally fractured reservoirs would be beneficial for a variety of engineering ... -
Three-dimensional fully coupled geomechanical modeling of the response of Oklahoma faults to saltwater disposal
Hemami, Behzad (2021-08-05)In the last decade, parts of the Central United States experienced marked increase in the number of small to moderate-sized earthquakes. Among all states, Oklahoma has experi-enced the most increase in the number of ...