Browsing by Author "Moghanloo, Rouzbeh"
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Application of in situ CO2 enhanced oil recovery in liquid-rich shale and low-temperature reservoirs
Ogbonnaya, Onyekachi (2023-12)The injection of CO2 presents significant potential for enhancing oil production while minimizing environmental impact by storing CO2 within the oil reservoir. However, the realization of this potential is hindered by ... -
CARBONACEOUS NANOSIZED SURFACTANT CARRIERS AND OIL-INDUCED VISCOELASTIC FLUID FOR POTENTIAL EOR APPLICATIONS
Chen, Changlong (2018-05-11)This dissertation aims to advance the conventional tertiary oil recovery method, surfactant flooding process. Via injecting a finite slug of surfactant-only or mixture of surfactant/polymer solution into reservoir, surfactants ... -
Case Study: Integrated Core Modeling and Simulation of Unconventional Hydraulically Fractured Wells in the Delaware Basin
Hefner, William (2020-07-30)The Early Paleozoic Wolfcamp formation is one of the main unconventional reservoirs in the Delaware Basin, and highly targeted by U.S. companies. Innovative completion techniques and representative core analysis have ... -
CONNECTIVITIES OF VARIOUS COMPONENTS IN ORGANIC-RICH SHALE
Wu, Yaokun (2019)The physical properties of shale are fundamentally controlled by its microstructure. Connectivity of various components in shale is an important property that governs the transport of mass, energy and momentum. Quantifying ... -
A data-driven approach for the evaluation of seismicity risks associated with CO2 injection
Ochie, Karen (2022)This work examined the application of Bayes’ theorem in evaluating the risk of induced seismicity associated with CO2 sequestration in the Arbuckle Group, which extends across the southern Mid-Continent of the US. Geological ... -
ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY STUDY OF SEVERAL UTILIZATION ALTERNATIVES FOR A STRANDED OFFSHORE GAS RESERVOIR
Trinh, Khoi (2019-12-13)Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) has been on the rise in recent years to meet growing energy demand, worldwide. As energy consumption and exploitation of onshore unconventional gas reservoirs continue to grow while ... -
Economy Analysis Comparison for Liquefied Natural Gas and Gas-to-Liquid Project in Monetizing Excessive Natural Gas Production
da Silva Sequeira, Pascoela (2019-05-10)Natural gas price has plummeted due to shale gas production booming which causes excessive capacity. Therefore, countries such as the U.S., Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and others with high natural gas production are ... -
Experimental Investigation of Molecular Hydrogen Effect on Cement Related to Well Integrity for Underground Hydrogen Storage
Ugarte Daza, Esteban Rolando (2022)Underground Hydrogen Storage (UHS) in the subsurface is an alternative to overcome limitations associated with a fluctuating production of renewable energy sources. The excess energy produced can be converted to hydrogen ... -
Impacts of Acoustic Waves on the Gas-Liquid Interface within Capillary Tubes
Flom, Jonathan (2017-05-12)The focus of this thesis is specifically on the effect that ultrasonic waves have on the interface curvature and subsequent capillary pressure alterations within capillary tubes. In order to optimize current ultrasonic ... -
A LOW-FREQUENCY ASYMPTOTIC FORMULATION TO ESTIMATE HYDRAULIC FRACTURE PROPERTIES FROM PRESSURE DATA
Al-Sammarraie, Rafeef (2016-12-16)The key drivers of success in unconventional oil and gas recovery, specifically in shale plays, is the rapid growth in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal well technology. With these completion methods, wells contact ... -
Modeling Nanofluid Utilization to Control Fines Migration
Yuan, Bin (2017-05-12)This dissertation presents analytical solutions to address several unresolved issues on modeling of nanofluid utilization to control fines migration in porous media. Despite numerical simulations, analytical solutions ... -
Modeling of non-equilibrium effects in particulate flow through porous media
Jin, Yi (2018)The complex dynamics of fluid and particles flowing through pore space demands some relaxation time for particles to catch up with fluid velocity which manifest themselves as non-equilibrium (NE) effect. Previous studies ... -
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 ... -
QUANTIFYING PARTICLE TRANSPORTATION FOR UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION
Tian, Wei (2017-12)The objectives of this research dissertation include: (1) develop a novel procedure of single well chemical tracer test (SWCTT) and modification of method of moments (MoM) to estimate mobile oil saturation; (2) apply ... -
A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH FOR UPSCALING OF THE EOR RESULTS FROM LAB-SCALE TO WELL-SCALE IN LIQUID-RICH SHALE PLAYS
Akita, Emmanuel (2020)Breakthrough technologies such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have led to game-changing results in the oil and gas industry. With the increase in energy demand and the overall growth in oil production in ... -
A Systematic approach to determine the optimal production rate to inhibit asphaltene deposition
Nosakhare, Adesuwa (2016-08)This thesis utilizes a systematic mathematical model, scaling analysis, to quantify the effect of production rate on asphaltene deposition, using a set of uniquely described mathematical equations modeled for the deposition ... -
Techno-optimization of CO2 transport networks with constrained pipeline parameters
Nnamdi, David (2023-05-13)In planning large scale carbon sequestration projects, one of the key parameters affecting project economics is the selection of optimal pipeline transportation networks connecting physical locations of carbon sources to ... -
UNDERSTANDING THE FUNDAMENTAL DRIVE MECHANISMS FOR HUFF-N-PUFF ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY IN TIGHT FORMATIONS
Dang, Son (2019-12-13)Unconventional oil and gas resources have recently become the major source of produced hydrocarbons in the US. The change in the energy landscape follows nearly two decades of technological breakthroughs including horizontal ... -
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-based Far-Field Antenna Characterization System for Polarimetric Weather Radars
Umeyama Matsumoto, Arturo (2020-12-18)The use of phased array radars for the US weather radar network (NEXRAD) has been proposed in lieu of the current mechanically steered dish-based systems, owing to its many attractive features, e.g., electronic steering ...