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Optimizing Wettability to Maximize Production from Retrograde Condensate Reservoirs - A Simulation Approach
(2017-05-12)It is well documented that significant production loss can be expected when regions of a retrograde condensate reservoir fall below the dew point, leading to liquid banking around the wellbore. Several methods have been ... -
ORAZIO GRASSI AND A 1623 TREATISE ON THE SPHERE: ASTRONOMY AND PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS AT THE COLLEGIO ROMANO IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
(2016-12)The University of Oklahoma History of Science Collections recently acquired a 1623 manuscript which has been attributed to the Jesuit mathematician Orazio Grassi. The first section of the manuscript, entitled “Tractatus ... -
THE ORGANIC GEOCHEMICAL VARIABILITY IN DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES WITHIN A STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE OF THE WOODFORD SHALE IN THE ARDMORE BASIN, OKLAHOMA
(2020-07)The Devonian-Early Mississippian Woodford Shale underlying the subsurface of Carter and Murray Counties in the Ardmore Basin, Oklahoma, USA, has attracted growing interest as an unconventional reservoir. Heterogeneity has ... -
Organic Geochemistry of The Woodford Shale, Cherokee Platform, OK and its Role in a Complex Petroleum System
(2016-05-13)The Woodford Shale is probably the most prolific source rock in the Anadarko Basin and Cherokee Platform. During the last decade, it became more important due to its high unconventional hydrocarbon potential. Recent studies ... -
ORGANIC-RICH SHALE TENSILE STRENGTH MODELING
(2016-05-13)Shale mechanical characterization is an expensive and time intensive lab and field exercise. Experimental observations in lab shale characterization have shown some relation (linear or non-linear) between fracture toughness ... -
THE ORTHODOX ETHIC? THE ROLE OF CHRISTIAN ORTHODOXY IN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS IN MACEDONIA
(2019-08)Max Weber’s analysis in his prominent book The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism has prompted a generation of research that observes the role and impact of religion in world affairs. The core of Weber’s ... -
The OSCE in Twenty-First Century Ukraine: An Exploration of Best Practices Applied
(2018-05-11)With fifty-seven member states and a remarkably broad definition of security, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) offers an unparalleled platform for crisis management across Europe and the Former ... -
Our squirrels will have elephant ears : indigenous perspectives on climate change in the south central United States
(2015)As climate change impacts areas around the world Indigenous communities are being impacted disproportionately. In the US a number of tribes are in differing levels of response and adaptation. In the south central U.S. there ... -
OUTCROP-SCALE STUDY OF THE PERMIAN BONE SPRING FORMATION, BONE SPRING CANYON, GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS, TEXAS: FRACTURE CHARACTERIZATION
(2017-05-12)A light detection and ranging- (LiDAR) focused outcrop study was conducted on Upper Leonardian Bone Spring limestone in the Bone Canyon, Delaware Basin of West Texas. LiDAR technology is very useful in modeling fracture ... -
Outcrop-subsurface geological characterization of La Luna Formation as an unconventional resource in the Northwest Lago de Maracaibo Basin and North Andean Flank, Venezuela /
In recent years, unconventional shale reservoirs have become very important around the world for their high source of energy and for their high economic value. La Luna Formation is of crucial importance in the petroleum ... -
Outlawing and becoming native in the colonization of Yosemite National Park: a cultural-ecological perspective
(2022)Since the 1980s, Environmental historians have produced research disproving the myth of pristine wilderness. Yet, few environmental historians have focused their research efforts on considering how such a myth may have ... -
Outlaws vs. Inlaws: A Comparative Analysis of the Childhood Backgrounds of Outlaw Motorcycle Club Members and Non-Outlaw Motorcycle Club Members
(2019-05-10)Why do individuals join Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs? The present research study explores the childhood backgrounds of Outlaw Motorcycle Club members compared to the childhood backgrounds of Non-Outlaw Motorcycle Club members. ... -
OVERALL AND GENDERED EFFECTS OF POST-RELEASE SUPERVISION: A PROPENSITY SCORE ANALYSIS
(2017-05-12)The number of people in the correctional population has skyrocketed in recent decades, with the majority being supervised within the community after release. The female correctional population, which has historically been ... -
THE PACIFIC DECADAL PRECESSION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO TROPICAL PACIFIC DECADAL VARIABILITY IN CMIP6 MODELS
(2020-07-30)Persistent, multi-year shifts in atmospheric circulations and their associated influence on regional climates can have profound impacts on physical, biological, and socioeconomic systems. The Pacific Decadal Precession ... -
Pacifying the Tepehuanes from 1590 to 1642
(2017-12-15)In the sixteenth century, Spanish missionaries entered the northern frontier of Mexico in hopes of converting the “barbarous” native peoples of the Sierra Madre Occidental. Upon their arrival, they found a population of ... -
A PALEOCLIMATE AND PALEOFIRE HISTORY FROM THE EARLY PLEISTOCENE OF UNAWEEP CANYON, NORTHWESTERN COLORADO
(2024-05)Lacustrine systems capture high-resolution records of continental climate, including information on paleotemperatures, hydroclimate, and paleofire activity. An increasing number of studies have reported paleoclimate and ... -
Paleoecology of the Moreno Hill Formation (Turonian-Coniacian, Cretaceous) of New Mexico
(2023)The Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution was a period of diversification of all major terrestrial groups that coincides with the rapid evolution and establishment of angiosperms (flowering plants) that began ~125 million years ... -
Paleoenvironment, Depositional History, and Process Sedimentology of the Upper Guadalupian Yates Formation: Northwest Shelf, New Mexico
(2020-12)A vertical and lateral outcrop of the late Guadalupian upper Yates Formation is observed along Dark Canyon Road in Eddy County, New Mexico. This outcrop has revealed cyclical, highly dynamic mixed carbonate and siliciclastic ... -
Paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Woodford shale with primary focus on water column structure
(2015-05-09)Twenty-nine Woodford Shale rock samples were acquired from the Wyche-1 core derived from the Wyche Farm Shale Pit, Pontotoc County, Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma. The TOC (total organic carbon) values ranged from 3.47-16.90 wt.%, ...