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QUANTIFYING PARTICLE TRANSPORTATION FOR UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION
(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 ...
Data Assimilation Using The Ensemble Kalman Filter With Emphasis On The Inequality Constraints
(2010)
The reliability of reservoir models generally increases as more data are included during their construction. In the recent past, the ensemble Kalman lter (EnKF) technique has established itself as a viable data assimilation ...
PREDICTIONS OF CRITICAL GAS RATES IN HORIZONTAL AND DEVIATED WELLS
(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 ...
CHARACTERIZATION OF SURFACTANTS AND TRACER PROPERTIES FOR POTENTIAL EOR APPLICATIONS
(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 ...
NEW AND IMPROVED TECHNIQUES FOR CHARACTERIZING BRITTLE ROCK RESPONSE
(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 ...
Dual-Porosity and Dual-Permeability Poromechanics Solutions for Problems in Laboratory and Field Applications
(2010)
In this work, a study of anisotropic dual-porosity and dual-permeability poromechanics is presented through generalized analytical solutions for selected problems in laboratory and field applications. For example, the ...
Numerical Simulations of Fracture Propagation Applied to Petroleum and Geothermal Reservoir Using Finite Element Method
(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 ...
Chemical Flood Under High Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Conditions
(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 ...
Poroelastic After-Closure Pressure Decline Analysis In Dual-Porosity Dual-Permeability Formations
(2016)
The dual-porosity and dual-permeability theory of poroelasticity is used to analyze the wellbore dual-pressure responses of dual-porosity or naturally fractured formations. The pressure decline is analyzed by modeling the ...
MATRIX HETEROGENEITY EFFECTS ON FLUID TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIUM: USING PERTURBATION THEORY
(2010)
In this dissertation the processes of transport and reaction in heterogeneous porous medium is upscaled from pore scale to the scale of interest (e.g., core sample or reservoir scale) and new governing equations describing ...