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MAPPING HYDRAULIC FRACTURE USING SHEAR WAVE
(2018-12)
It has become critical to understand the location of hydraulic fracture and the extent to which it stimulates a reservoir to plan future drilling and completions. Various methods have been used to map the fracture propagation. ...
Experimental Evaluation of a Centrifugal Packer-Type Downhole Separator
(2019)
With the ever-increasing decline in production of oil wells, application of artificial lift techniques is becoming inevitable. Beam pumps and electrical submersible pumps are two of the most common artificial lift methods ...
NMR Considerations in Shales at Elevated Temperature
(2019)
The process of hydrocarbon production from unconventional resource shales begins with
identifying zones in the well which have the most favorable features – in terms of fluid content,
fluid flow and rock mechanical ...
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 ...
3D RESERVOIR GEOMECHANICS MODEL OF THE PROPOSED FORGE LABORATORY SITE NEAR MILFORD UTAH
(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 ...
Applying the Simplified Local Density Model to Study the Effects fo Confinement on Density in Shale Formation
(2016)
The pores in shale gas reservoirs are represented on a nanometer scale. In addition to having smaller pore sizes than conventional reservoirs, shale gas reservoirs exhibit different mechanisms of gas storage, i.e. gas ...
Numerical simulation study on CO2 injection for enhancing hydrocarbon recovery and sequestration in tight oil formations
(2014)
Hydrocarbon resources from unconventional reservoirs, especially tight/shale plays, are changing the North America's energy prospect. Single digit percentage of oil shale recovery with current best practices, leaves a large ...
Modeling Adsorption in Shale
(2016-12-16)
The existing conventional methods to characterize reservoir storage properties face challenges in shale formations due to their fine grained texture, low porosity, and low permeability. An integrated analysis of standard ...
CALCULATION OF ESTIMATED OIL RECOVERY USING CARTER TYPE CURVES
(2017-05-12)
The focus of this research is to calculate the Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR) of shale wells for a diverse range of fluid types using Carter (1985) type curves. The Carter (1985) type curve is a plot of flow rate versus ...
IMPACT OF WETTABILITY ALTERATION ON RELATIVE PERMEABILITY IN SANDSTONE FOR GAS-CONDENSATE APPLICATION
(2017-05-12)
Gas condensate reservoirs can experience severe production losses once the bottom-hole flowing pressure drops below the dew point pressure, where condensate starts to form near the wellbore. During production under these ...