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Experimental investigations of the effect of oil based mud (OBM) contamination on long-term integrity of API cements
(2020-12)
Well construction, well abandonment, and restoration of well integrity are the reasons at a broad level why cementing jobs are performed. During the well construction phase, the primary objective of the cementing job is ...
Experimental Analysis of Centrifugal Downhole Separators in Boosting Artificial Lift Performance
(2021-12-18)
Gas evolution and expansion is a natural phenomenon in oil and gas wells. However, gas is detrimental to pumping artificial lift (AL) systems, causing incomplete pump fillage and reduced pump efficiency in oil wells. Pumping ...
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 ...
TRIAXIAL AND INJECTION EXPERIMENTS ON ROCKS AND THEIR IMPACT ON PERMEABILITY AND ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS
(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 ...
Scale Up Reactive Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media Using Continuous Time Random Walk Approach
(2017-08)
Reservoir heterogeneities strongly affect the fluid flow in porous media. The behavior of transport and reaction of fluid varies at different scales, leading to the discrepancies between laboratory experiments and field ...
Linear Post Linear Flow Production Analysis
(2017-05-12)
This study was motivated by the production data observed from multi-fractured horizontal wells in the field that have two infinite acting flow regimes. These two infinite acting flow regimes appear as two straight lines ...
LABORATORY GEOMECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ARBUCKLE GROUP AND CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT ROCKS IN OKLAHOMA
(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 ...