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Studying “fitness for service” of the sealing assemblies and cement system
(2018-05)
Well integrity is a crucial phase of well design and construction, as such multiple barriers are usually installed in wells to prevent any migration of formation fluids. One of these barriers include the elastomeric sealing ...
INTEGRATED MODELING AND SIMULATION OF MULTI-STAGE HYDRAULIC FRACTURED WELLS IN THE WOODFORD SHALE
(2019-08-01)
The Late Devonian-Early Mississippian Woodford shale is known as the main source rock in the state of Oklahoma, and one of the most attractive unconventional plays in the U.S. Early Woodford’s exploration and development ...
Comparative Study of Pore Structure Characterization for Different Rock Samples Using Digital Images
(2019-12)
Due to the scarcity in supply of energy and slumping production from conventional reservoirs, exportation from unconventional tight shale reservoirs has received considerable scholarly attention in recent years. However, ...
EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF BRINE IN CRUDE OIL EMULSIONS AND ITS PERFORMANCE IN ARTIFICIAL LIFT SYSTEMS
(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 ...
Petrophysical Inversion of Multifrequency Resistivity and Permittivity Logs and Laboratory Measurements
(2017-12)
In this thesis, we develop a unified inversion scheme that can be coupled to various type of relaxation models to process multi-frequency measurement of varied electromagnetic (EM) properties for purposes of improved ...
COALBED METHANE COMPREHENSIVE CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING – BIG GEORGE COAL, POWDER RIVER BASIN, WYOMING
(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, ...
USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION TO STUDY BEHAVIOR OF HYDROCARBON FLUID
(2019-08)
The purpose of this thesis is to study hydrocarbon fluid behavior with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In the past two decades, MD simulation has been proved to be a reliable tool in the study of oil and natural gas ...
Modeling of non-equilibrium effects in particulate flow through porous media
(2018)
The complex dynamics of fluid and particles flowing through pore space demands some relaxation time for particles to catch up with fluid velocity which manifest themselves as non-equilibrium (NE) effect. Previous studies ...
IMPORTANCE OF PORE SIZE FOR EFFECTIVE DENSITY OF SHALE GAS
(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
(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 ...