Browsing Masters Theses by Title
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Pressure Analysis of a Well with an Inclined Asymmetric Hydraulic Fracture
(2009-12-08)Hydraulic fracturing is an effective well stimulation technique which is introduced in the 1950s and widely used in the oil and gas industry. Most of the works about hydraulic fracture assumed that the fracture is symmetric ...
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Pressure Analysis of a Well With an Inclined Hydraulic Fracture in a Naturally Fractured Reservoir
(2009-12-15)Hydraulic fracturing has been an effective technique to stimulate damaged wells or wells producing from low-permeability formation. It has been established that the orientation of a hydraulic fracture is perpendicular to ...
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Pressure Transient Analysis in Anisotropic Composite Reservoirs – A Three Dimensional Semi-Analytical Approach
(2011-12-20)A composite reservoir is one with multiple lateral compartments; each having distinct rock and fluid properties separated by geologic discontinuities. Geologically, composite reservoirs separated by leaky faults are rife ...
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Pressure Transient Analysis of Bingham Fluids using Tiab’s Direct Synthesis Approach
(2019-07-23)This study investigated transient flow response of heavy oil that exhibit Bingham fluid characteristics. Four wellbore conditions in naturally fractured reservoirs were considered which include horizontal well, hydraulically ...
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Pressure Transient Analysis of Hydraulically Fractured Wells in Multilayered Reservoirs
(2011-12-20)New equations for bilinear, formation linear and pseudo-radial flow regimes in an infinite commingled fractured multilayered reservoir have been developed. The equations have been extended to Tiab’s Direct Synthesis Technique ...
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Prevention of Hydrates in Pipelines using Hybrid Thermodynamic Inhibitors
(2010-12-12)Chemical method is the most efficient and flexible method of hydrate control in offshore operations. In recent times, polymers and surfactants have been used to influence the kinetics of hydrate growth and coagulation. ...
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Pricing and Modeling of Bonds and Interest Rate Derivatives
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Probability of Wellbore Failure and its Prediction Using Machine Learning
(AUST, 2019-06-09)Wellbore instability (WI) is one of the major challenges experienced during drilling operations costing the oil and gas industry over $1 billion yearly. During the drilling, borehole breakout and drilling induced fractures ...
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Prodigiosin Encapsulated Poly Lactide-Co-Glycolide (PLGA)- Coated Stent for Coronary Cardiovascular Interventions
(2014-12-15)This research focuses on the design of a robust but flexible prodigiosin eluting stent coating for possible coronary cardiovascular implant. When coated with the drug embedded polymer matrix, the stent would be expected ...
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Pulsed Lasers in Lidar Application: Models for Optimizing Wind Turbine Performance
(2019-06-22)Since the appearance of the first wind turbines at the end of the nineteenth century, wind energy has been considered to be a renewable energy source for not just developed countries but also developing countries as well. ...
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Quadratic forms with Applications
(2013-05-27)The scope of Quadratic Form Theory is historically wide although it usually appears almost as an afterthought when needed to solve a variety of problems such as the classification of Hessian matrices in finite dimensional ...
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Qualitative Modelling and Simulation of Free Running Semiconductor Laser
(2011-11-15)The thesis presents the modelling and simulation of free running semiconductor laser. The rate equations which were derived on the basis of the fact that there must be a balance between carriers that undergo transition ...
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Quality of service and NFC Communications Security of applications dedicated to dependent people
(2016-05-15)The application of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology in every part of the world today has tremendously improved efficiency and effectiveness regarding security. The use of this technology in the healthcare system ...
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Quantification of Uncertainty and Risks for Developing Marginal Fields in the Niger Delta
(2011-11-20)The Niger Delta is Nigeria’s and Africa’s most prolific producing basin and has some untapped oil resources because of their marginality. The development of marginal oil field in Nigeria has now become an important strategic ...
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Quantifying Incremental Oil Production and Economics of using Intelligent Completion as a Tool for Reservoir Management
(2013-05-25)Huge amount of hydrocarbon in place is left unrecovered. Integrated reservoir management, in addition to the use of new technologies improves hydrocarbon recovery. Intelligent completion is one of the technologies which ...
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Quantifying the Risks of Wellbore Failure during Drilling Operations Using Bayesian Algorithm
(2019-06-23)The wellbore integrity plays an important role in petroleum operations like drilling, well completion and production. Caliper, Electrical image logs, Acoustic televiewers (ATV) and Optical televiewers (OTV) are some of the ...
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Quantum Simulation of a Transverse-Field Ising Model
(2010-12-20)A popular model that have been used to study ferromagnetism is the Ising Model which is an arrangement of spins along a particular direction and with discrete values of + 1 . 1-D Ising model doesn't show a phase transition ...
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Ratchet Current Landscape at Quantum Resonance
(2020-12-14)The ratchet effect is the rectified motion of atoms using an unbiased driving force. By ‘’unbiased’’ we mean to say that the time-average is equal to zero. This can be accomplished experimentally using cold atoms in a ...