Browsing OU - Dissertations by Author "Fahes, Mashhad"
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Brine Driven Alteration of Phyllosilicates
Geyer, Christopher (2024-04-16)The sedimentary structures and mineralogy of the Martian surface record a complex and inconsistently active hydrosphere throughout the planet’s history (Bibring et al., 2006; Elwood Madden et al., 2009). Phyllosilicates ... -
Downhole Geothermal Power Generation in Oil Wells
Wang, Kai (2019-12-13)Sustainable production of sufficient energy to power the world’s economies with minimum environmental footprint have been one of the most significant challenges for decades. As an essential type of alternative energy, ... -
DYNAMIC DRILLING FLUIDS LOSS AND FILTRATION: IMPACT OF DYNAMIC WELLBORE CONDITIONS AND WELLBORE STRENGTHENING IMPLICATIONS
Ezeakacha, Chinedum Peter (2018-12-14)Lost circulation (drilling fluid loss) and mud filtration have been investigated over the years because they lead to non-drilling time (NDT) and increase the overall well cost. It is usually the first source of damage to ... -
THE EFFECT OF PORE SPACE ON FLUID FLOW AND PHASE BEHAVIOR IN TIGHT FORMATIONS
Salahshoor, Shadi (2019-05)Unconventional resources have led to a new abundance of natural oil and gas supply all over the world over the past decade and are expected to play a vital role in the future of this industry. Despite tremendous growth of ... -
FUNDAMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF PRE-EXISTING FRACTURE SLIP AND PROPAGATION IN RESERVOIR STIMULATION
Ye, Zhi (2019-12)The deformation behavior and transport properties of subsurface reservoir rock masses are highly influenced by the existence of natural fractures. Shear reactivation of pre-existing fractures by pressurized fluid injection ... -
Geomechanical modeling of reservoir using finite element method
Feizi Masouleh, Shahla (2020)The importance of refracturing horizontal wells in low permeability reservoirs is well recognized in the oil and gas industry. As a result of production from a propped open fracture, the stress changes in the reservoir. ... -
INTEGRATED RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION AND GEOLOGICAL UPSCALING FOR RESERVOIR FLOW SIMULATIONS OF THE SYCAMORE/MERAMEC AND HUNTON PLAYS IN OKLAHOMA
Milad, Benmadi (2019-05-10)This study fully integrates multidisciplinary, multi-scalar subsurface and surface data for successful exploration and development programs in a fractured rock reservoir. Unconventional Sycamore/Meramec and conventional ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Three-dimensional fully coupled thermoporomechanical modelling of fractured reservoir rock
Gao, Qian (2019-05-10)The coupled behaviors of fluid flow, heat transport and geomechanics in fractured porous media are studied. Emphasis is placed on the coupled hydro-mechanical processes involved in hydraulic fracture propagation, thermal ...