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Removal of Residual Oil From Produced Water Using Magnetic Nanoparticles
(2019-08)
The production of wastewater during hydrocarbon recovery is an unresolvable factor of the oil and gas industry. Oil wells in the US produce on average, nearly 10 barrels of water for every 1 barrel of oil. Most of the ...
Forecasting Natural Gas Prices in the United States Using Artificial Neural Networks
(2016-05-13)
Prediction of the natural gas price is imperative to producers, suppliers, traders, market makers, and bankers involved in the natural gas exploration, production transportation, and trading. Additionally, consumers are ...
THE KEROGEN 3D SOLID STATE STRUCTURE MODELING AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN RESERVOIR SIMULATION
(2016-12-16)
A 3D solid state Green River Oil Shale kerogen model was built in this thesis through the following two steps: 1. a molecular nanocluster model of kerogen composed of seven molecules was built based on an adsorption method; ...
RHEOLOGY OF AQUEOUS AND POLYMER-BASED NITROGEN FOAMS AT HIGH PRESSURE AND HIGH TEMPERATURE (HPHT) CONDITIONS
(2017-05-12)
Foams are complex mixtures of gas and liquid held together by a surfactant at the gas-water interface. The use of foams find application in many industrial operations such as underbalanced drilling fluid, fracturing fluid ...
MECHANISTIC MODEL OF COMPLEX CONDUCTIVITY OF POROUS MEDIA CONTAINING CONDUCTIVE PARTICLES OF VARYING WETTABILITY
(2019-08)
Electrically conductive particles, such as graphite and pyrite particles, and surface-charge-bearing nonconductive particles, such as sand and clay grains, are commonly present in subsurface geological formations. When a ...
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF EFFECT OF PROPPANT CONCENTRATION, TYPES, SIZES, ROCK MINERALOGY AND OVERBURDEN STRESS ON FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITY
(2019-12-13)
Hydrocarbon production from unconventional reservoirs, particularly shales, requires massive hydraulic fractures to expose the large surface areas within the formation and provide a conduit to the wellbore. Proppants are ...
INTERRELATING PRODUCTION ANALYSIS WITH PORE SCALE STRUCTURE IN THE BAKKEN RESERVOIR
(2016)
Improving well performance and associated project economics in oil resource plays rely on developing reservoir characterization capabilities. The need for understanding pore-scale geometry in low porosity low permeability ...
FRACTURING OPTIMIZATION BASED ON DYNAMIC CONDUCTIVITY
(2016)
This thesis presents a systematic approach to evaluate and optimize production performance of fractured wells in tight oil formations. Underperformed hydraulically fractured wells have been widely reported; poor design is ...
Integrated Production Data Analysis of Horizontal Fractured Well in Unconventional Reservoir
(2016-12-16)
This thesis presents a novel analytical solution to predict the expansion of drainage volume for compound transient linear flow system consisting of stimulated-reservoir volume (SRV) and unstimulated shale/tight sandstone ...
Application of a New Yield Strength Acquisition Method to the Calculation of Collapse Pressure
(2018)
The accuracy of a casing collapse prediction is critical to a successful casing design program. This is especially true today as the likelihood of HPHT reservoirs and difficult conditions downhole has become increasingly ...