Browsing OU - Theses by Author "Fahes, Mashhad"
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Adsorption Characteristics of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate on Zwitterionic Functionalized Alumina: A Molecular Dynamics Study
Tow, Garrett (2017-05)A classical molecular dynamics simulation was conducted in order to determine the extent of surfactant adsorption on zwitterionic functionalized Al2O3. Sodium dodecyl sulfate was used as a model anionic surfactant, and ... -
THE BEHAVIOR OF EMULSION IN ARTIFICIAL LIFT SYSTEMS
Al Munif, Eiman (2016-08)The gas lift system and ESP are used to enhance oil production from a well. The basic principle of gas lift technique is reducing the gravity component of the pressure by injecting gas, thus increasing the oil production ... -
COALBED METHANE COMPREHENSIVE CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING – BIG GEORGE COAL, POWDER RIVER BASIN, WYOMING
Mohamed, Tarek (2019-05-10)Over the past two decades, coalbed methane (CBM) has become one of the major unconventional gas resources in the US, Canada, Australia, and other countries. Despite substantial advances in CBM exploitation technologies, ... -
DENSITY CHANGES AND COMPOSITIONAL PATH DURING CO2 INJECTION
Nguyen, Son (2016-12-16)CO2 EOR has been used for a couple of decades as it improves oil recovery. With more than 50% of original oil in place (OOIP) remaining inside reservoir after primary and secondary stage, more and more companies start to ... -
Determination of SHmax using drilling induced fractures and focal mechanism
fang, yuan (2023-07)Knowledge of in-situ stress is essential to well development technologies such as wellbore stability, hydraulic fracturing, well spacing design, and the monitoring of induced seismicity. As energy exploration has become ... -
A DISLOCATION-BASED BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD TO MODEL PRESSURIZED FRACTURES
Paknia, Farzin (2019)A significant portion of hydrocarbon and geothermal resources in the world, and especially in the United States, is unconventional. Some of the unconventional resources have special geological structures so that their ... -
Evaluating Treatment Parameters Toward Optimizing Production From Gas Reservoirs Using Wettability Alteration
Ajagbe, Oluwatobi (2019)Retrograde condensation in gas reservoirs results in a significant loss in well deliverability. A ring of condensate forms near the wellbore as a result of reservoir pressure falling below the dew point of the reservoir ... -
EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF BRINE IN CRUDE OIL EMULSIONS AND ITS PERFORMANCE IN ARTIFICIAL LIFT SYSTEMS
Gomez Mejia, Sergio (2018)Understanding the behavior of water in oil emulsions can prevent flow assurance problems and the conditions at which these two fluids can mix. The stability and rheology of water in crude oil emulsions was studied for three ... -
An Experimental Investigation into Using Electro-Chemical Properties to Measure Permeability in Low Permeability Formations
Kazi, Tabish (2016-12-16)Permeability is one of the most important property in the study of rock formations. Different permeability measurement techniques have been used in the industry, some of which are based on modelling while others on ... -
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF FLOW AND RHEOLOGY OF WATER-IN-CRUDE OIL EMULSIONS
KOBEA, GNALY MARIE HELENE (2019-05-10)The formation of water-in-crude oil emulsion is one of the main causes of flow assurance issues in petroleum production systems. These mixture exhibit changes in their flow behavior, and the rheological models used to ... -
Impact of Viscous Acid-in-Oil Emulsion Formation on Well Productivity Following Acid Stimulation
Scarborough, Bryan (2016-12-16)Acid stimulation techniques matrix acidizing and acid fracturing are commonly applied in carbonate reservoirs. The goal of such techniques is to increase well productivity by enhancing permeability in the near wellbore ... -
IMPORTANCE OF PORE SIZE FOR EFFECTIVE DENSITY OF SHALE GAS
Curtin, James III (2017-05-12)The proper development of any natural gas reservoir depends on knowing several key factors; perhaps the most important of these factors is the volume of gas-in-place of a reservoir at a given pressure. Gas-in-place ... -
INJECTION EXPERIMENTS ON ROCKS UNDER TRIAXIAL CONDITION WITH ACOUSTIC EMISSION MONITORING
Eskandari Halvaei, Mostafa (2016-12)This work presents the results of a series of triaxial- injection experiments carried out on two basalt cores from the Newberry geothermal field well GEO-N2 and a Mississippi lime stone. A combination of triaxial and ... -
AN INVESTIGATION OF EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS REQUIRED TO STUDY HYDROCARBON PHASE BEHAVIOR UNDER CONSTANT VOLUME AND CONSTANT COMPOSITION CONDITIONS
Cholkar, Abhijeet (2016)Accurate fluid phase behavior evaluation is essential for reservoir engineers to predict the type of reservoir, oil and gas in place, and develop proper production strategies. The change in phase behavior and phase equilibrium ... -
INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON LOW-SALINITY WATERFLOODING
Mansi, Mohamed (2019-08-01)Even though Low-Salinity Waterflooding (LSW) has been under investigation as a promising Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technique for almost three decades, most of the studies in the literature are focused on investigating ... -
MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF THE DESTABILIZATION OF ACID IN CRUDE OIL EMULSIONS USING POPULATION BALANCE EQUATION
El-Fouly, Shams El-Din (2019-08)In this current work, a phenomenological mathematical model that utilizes the population balance equation was developed to understand the destabilization process of acid in crude oil emulsions in laboratory conditions. The ... -
ON THE FATE OF THE FRACTURING FLUID AND ITS IMPACT ON LOAD RECOVERY AND WELL PERFORMANCE
Mehana, Mohamed (2016-08-01)The complexity of the shale system coupled with the mystery of low fracturing fluid recovery has puzzled many researchers. Field reports from hydraulic fracturing operations performed on shale formations have highlighted ... -
PROPPANT FLOW AND TRANSPORT MODELING IN DEFORMABLE HYDRAULIC FRACTURE NETWORKS
Gonzalez Lopez, Ruben Alberto (2018)The objective of the hydraulic fracturing stimulation is to create a large volume of fractured rock with enhanced permeability. The effectiveness of a hydraulic fracturing stimulation depends on maintaining the created ... -
Quantification of recovery factors in downspaced shale wells
Sinha, Saurabh (2016-12-16)Well spacing optimization in horizontal multi-fractured wells is the center of field development. Unconventional reservoirs due to the low matrix permeability cannot produce without the help of hydraulic fracturing. Unlike ... -
Quantifying the Impact of Asphaltene Precipitation on Sandstone Wettability
James Abraham, Jocin (2017-12)Asphaltene precipitation, and the resulting decline in oil production, has for long been identified as a severe problem in oil reservoirs. The deposition of these high molecular weight oil fractions in pore spaces have ...