Browsing OU - Theses by Author "Ghassemi, Ahmad"
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3D RESERVOIR GEOMECHANICS MODEL OF THE PROPOSED FORGE LABORATORY SITE NEAR MILFORD UTAH
Janis, Michael (2018-05-11)In this thesis a 3D reservoir geomechanics model (mechanical earth model) is constructed for the FORGE laboratory site near Milford, Utah. Such characterizations are necessary for enhanced geothermal sites (EGS) that rely ... -
DETERMINATION OF SHALE ANISOTROPIC POROVISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES FROM THREE-POINT BEAM BENDING TEST
Zhou, Yang (2017-05-12)Permeability is an extremely important property of shale. It is essential to know permeability as it can aid engineers in developing drilling and production strategies and help executives make important financial decisions. ... -
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 ... -
AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON CREEP BEHAVIOR OF SHALE ROCKS: WITH EMPHASIS ON THE INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE AND ANISOTROPY
Khosravi, Elahe (2017-05-12)The deformation of materials under constant load over time is called creep. The conductivity of fracture produced by hydraulic fracturing decreased over time as a result of this time dependent phenomenon that requires to ... -
GEOMECHANICAL RESERVOIR CHARACTERIAZATION AND APPLICATIONS
Liu, Jiman (2017-05-12)The Mechanical Earth Model (MEM) is gaining attention in the oil and gas industry recently since utilizing horizontal well and multistage fracturing technologies requires understanding of the reservoir geomechanical ... -
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 ... -
INTEGRATED GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION AT THE BED SCALE OF THE WOODFORD SHALE AT THE I-35 OUTCROP, SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA
Becerra-Rondon, Daniela Marcela (2017)A road-cut exposure located on the southern flank of the Arbuckle anticline along the Interstate-35 provided the opportunity to document in detail the lithological heterogeneities of the uppermost 81 feet of the Woodford ... -
LABORATORY GEOMECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ARBUCKLE GROUP AND CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT ROCKS IN OKLAHOMA
Yu, Weiqi (2017-05-12)In the past decade, the rapidly increase in earthquakes in the State of Oklahoma has drawn serious attention. Some investigations have attributed the increased MEQ to the large amount of wastewater injections as part of ... -
Mechanical properties of class H cement at room and elevated temperatures and the effect of gilsonite and microcellulose on its mechanical properties
Rincon Silias, Fernando Aaron (2022-12-16)With an increase in global energy demands, the importance of well integrity and the oilfield cements has become more important than ever as it guarantees the continuous supply of fossil fuel to fulfill the requirement of ... -
Non-Destructive Index Testing For Relative Assessment Of Rock Strength
Vachaparampil, Alex (2016)Index tests for the determination of rock properties have been employed since the early 90s, based on methods developed since the 1900s in the metallurgical industry. Examples include the Brinell hardness test, Rockwell ... -
ORGANIC-RICH SHALE TENSILE STRENGTH MODELING
Le, Thao (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 ... -
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 ... -
STRESS PATH AND PORE PRESSURE IN AND AROUND A PRODUCING FORMATION PIERCED BY A SALT DOME
Hernandez Riveros, Laura Maria (2018)The pore pressure decrease due to production from a reservoir causes changes in the total and effective stresses, leading to compaction and deformation of the reservoir and the surrounding rocks, which can translate into ... -
TRIAXIAL AND INJECTION EXPERIMENTS ON ROCKS AND THEIR IMPACT ON PERMEABILITY AND ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS
Bakshi, Rohit (2017-05-12)Understanding the various micromechanical processes that occur in a rock under in-situ stress conditions has been a major imperative of rock mechanics. Some of the applications of rock mechanics include the science of ...