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Experimental and numerical simulation study of microbial enhanced oil recovery using bio-surfactants.
(2005)
A 2-phase, 10-component microbial enhanced oil recovery numerical simulator was modified to include reservoir salinity and facilitate surfactant and polymer injection. The effects of reservoir brine salinity and divalent ...
Multifactor valuation models of energy futures and options on futures.
(2003)
The intent of this dissertation is to investigate continuous time pricing models for commodity derivative contracts that consider mean reversion. The motivation for pricing commodity futures and option on futures contracts ...
History matching production data using the ensemble Kalman filter.
(2006)
In this dissertation, the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is refined for applications to the problem of history matching. This method assimilates data sequentially whenever data are acquired. It is a Monte Carlo approach, ...
From creekology to geology: Finding and conserving oil on the Southern Plains, 1859--1930.
(2004)
This dissertation tells the story of the oil industry's westward migration from Pennsylvania to the Southern Plains states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and how different environments in these regions influenced prospectors' ...
Effects of resident water and non-equilibrium adsorption on the primary and enhanced coalbed methane gas recovery.
(2006)
This study presents an experimental and theoretical procedure to investigate the effects of the resident water and time-dependency of the sorption process on coalbed and shale gas primary and enhanced recovery by simultaneous ...
Crystalline and amorphous phases in polymer electrolytes and model systems.
(2001)
A symmetry-based vibrational analysis is used to interpret bands in crystalline polymer-salt compounds. Vibrational spectroscopic data of crystalline polymer:salt complexes reveal the presence of dynamic coupling of the ...
Intra- and inter-commodity price relationships in electricity and natural gas spot and futures markets.
(2001)
Essay 2 examines why electricity futures contracts are failing despite apparent need for hedging instruments. Consistent with my hypothesis, empirical results find that the hedging protection provided by electricity futures ...
Electric utility deregulation: The case of stranded costs.
(2002)
My dissertation focuses on electric utility deregulation and certain costs that may become unrecoverable (stranded) in a deregulated market. Recent federal and state deregulation has increased competition in the electricity ...
The direct partial oxidation of methane to organic oxygenates using a dielectric barrier discharge reactor.
(2001)
In regards to the system's energy usage, increases in methane conversion resulted in increases in the system's energy consumption due to limited partial pressures of oxygen within the reaction zone.
Effect of pressure depletion on hydrocarbon recovery in naturally fractured reservoirs.
(2006)
The link between well test analysis, the material balance equation, and the elastic properties of the rock resides in the fluid storage capacity. Thus, in this study, the influence of stress on the mechanical behavior of ...