Browsing OU - Dissertations by Author "Jamili, Ahmad"
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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 ... -
CHARACTERIZATION OF SURFACTANTS AND TRACER PROPERTIES FOR POTENTIAL EOR APPLICATIONS
Wang, Shengbo (2017)There are some challenges in chemical flooding, such as, gas finger problem usually occurred in field tests, potential scale problems of chemical slug caused by precipitation due to incompatibility between chemical solution ... -
Chemical Flood Under High Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Conditions
Wan, Wei (2014-08-15)After the primary and secondary production, there is still a great potential of enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Currently, the high oil price, increase of oil demand and maturing oil fields and the improvement in surfactant ... -
HLD-NAC Based Solutions for Surfactant Flooding
Jin, Luchao (2016-04-05)Established technologies like primary recovery methods using gas pressure and other natural forces in the reservoir, and secondary recovery by water flooding can only approximately recover one-third of the crude oil present ... -
A MICROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF WETTABILITY IN SHALE KEROGEN WITH VARYING MATURITY LEVELS AND ITS ROLE IN GOVERNING FLUID DISTRIBUTION
Hu, Yinan (2014-12)Kerogen is defined as the insoluble macromolecular organic matter in sedimentary rocks and is a complex mixture of organic chemical compounds. The process of kerogen maturation is accompanied by the loss of functionalized ... -
Multiscale Modeling of Nanoparticles Transport, Aggregation, and In Situ Gelation in Porous Media
Abdelfatah, Elsayed (2017)Nanoparticle applications in the petroleum industry have grown recently especially in EOR and well stimulation. Transport of nanoparticles in porous media involves different interaction mechanisms either between nanoparticles ... -
NEW AND IMPROVED TECHNIQUES FOR CHARACTERIZING BRITTLE ROCK RESPONSE
Li, Yawei (2017-12)To improve the production from shale, stimulation technique such as hydraulic fracturing with proppants is essential. To maximize the effectiveness of hydraulic fracturing, brittle intervals with the minimum creep deformation ... -
Numerical Simulations of Fracture Propagation Applied to Petroleum and Geothermal Reservoir Using Finite Element Method
Huang, Kai (2015-08)Hydraulic fracturing is a major technique in reservoir stimulation to enhance production. Better understanding of mechanisms of hydraulic fracturing is essential for designing hydraulic fracture treatments. Multiple physical ... -
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 ... -
THE STUDIES OF CONFINED FLUID PHASE BEHAVIOR IN SHALE RESOURCES
Ma, Yixin (2018-05-11)Fluid phase behavior in porous media is governed by not only fluid-fluid interactions but also fluid-wall interactions. In shale formations, a large amount of hydrocarbon fluid is stored within the organic matters where ... -
STUDY AND DEVELOPMENT OF IN-SITU CO2 ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY
Wang, Shuoshi (2018-05-11)While the injection of CO2 has great potential for increasing oil production, this potential is limited by site conditions and operational constraints such as the lack of proper infrastructure, limited cheap CO2 sources, ... -
SURFACTANT-ONLY EOR FOR HIGH SALINITY BRINE
Budhathoki, Mahesh (2015)Developing a surfactant formulation for reservoir having high salinity/total dissolved solids (TDS) brine is a challenging task because surfactant not only phase separate or precipitate but also show high adsorption on ... -
Three-Dimensional FEM Modeling of Geothermal Reservoir Stimulation Using Stochastic Fracture Networks and Continuum Damage Mechanics
Wang, Xiaonan (2014-08)Unconventional reservoirs are gaining more and more attention in recently years. Pore pressure and temperature variations in unconventional reservoirs during stimulation are of great importance in reservoir exploration and ...