Masters Theses: Recent submissions
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Multiphase Flow Assurance in Subsea Tiebacks
(AUST, 2019-06-15)Gas hydrate is one of the major plagues of gas wells in the industry, capital costs to prevent hydrate blockage in pipelines is an dissociation temperatures for the operating pressures. The model developed was tested on ...
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Feasibility Analysis of Commercial Barite Production in Nassarawa State Nigeria
(AUST, 2019-06-10)Nigeria is blessed with mineral resources but unfortunately many have been poorly exploited. This has resulted to spending huge sums of money to import these minerals rather than taking advantage of available local natural ...
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Techno Economic Analysis of Heavy Oil Field in Nigeria
(AUST, 2019-06-14)The main challenge of heavy oil (bitumen) is the high viscosity making it not flow easily to production wells at normal reservoir conditions. Thermal recovery methods are used to exploit heavy oil reservoirs, where oil ...
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Evaluation of Optimal Position of ESP for Optimum Rate in Horizontal Well
(AUST, 2019-07-13)In this project, the optimum position of ESP is evaluated for horizontal wells. The inflow and outflow performance of the horizontal well has been estimated using Joshi’s steady-state approximation for horizontal flow and ...
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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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Selection of the Right Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid for Unconventional Reservoir Engineering
(AUST, 2019-07-12)Unconventional resources are of major importance to the oil and gas industry due to its enormousness, however, due to the low permeability of these resources, there is a need for hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing ...
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Analysis of Real Option Approaches for Oilfield Valuations
(AUST, 2019-06-10)More than three decades have passed since Stewart Myers coined the term “real options” and introduced this new paradigm into the investment science. In the following years a number of publications in both the finance and ...
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Evaluation of Some Characteristics of the Barite Deposits in Ribi, Nassarawa State for Industrial Application
(AUST, 2019-07-15)This study aimed at characterizing and evaluating the viability of barite deposits within Ribi for industrial applications. There is an inadequacy of information as regards mineralization, chemical and geotechnical properties ...
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Evaluation of Machine Learning Tools for Predicting Sand Production
(2021-03-12)Data analytics has only recently picked the interest of the oil and gas industry as it has made data visualization much simpler, faster, and cost-effective. This is driven by the promising innovative techniques in developing ...
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Earth-Based Construction Materials Reinforced with Tropical Plants and Recycled Waste Cellulose Pulp Fibre: Performance and Durability Assessment
(2021-02-20)Due to the growing concern of deforestation, renewable materials such as recycled cellulosic waste and non-wood fibres provide an alternative solution for partial replacement of wood resources as a reinforcement agent in ...
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The Tuning of the Todd and Longstaff Mixing Parameter in Limited Compositional Simulation to Optimize Recovery from a Gas Condensate Reservoir
(2021-07-20)A gas condensate reservoir is a type of gas reservoir that exists when the reservoir temperature is between the critical temperature and the cricondentherm. Compositional simulators are used to simulate these types of ...
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Comparative Analysis of Limited and Fully Compositional Simulation of a Niger Delta Gas-Condensate Reservoir
(2021-06-20)Numerical simulators estimate the recovery volumes and the volume of fluids in-place in the reservoir as a function of time and space by solving complex partial differential fluid flow equations. For gas condensate reservoirs, ...
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Integrated Information System for a Food Processing Industry: Case Study of Cashew Nuts Processing
(AUST, 2021-07-09)Information System (IS) is an integrated set of components for collecting, storing, and processing data and for providing information and knowledge. IS is commonly used by organizations, business firms, institutions to ...
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Text Retrieval Using Wavelet Tree
(AUST, 2021-07-20)The wavelet tree is a flexible data structure that permits representing sequences S[1; n] of symbols over an alphabet of size (n), within compressed space and supporting a wide range of operations on S. It has been used ...
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Cassava Leaf Disease Classification with Deep Learning
(AUST, 2021-08-13)Inspired by the current trend in artificial intelligence and neural network research, and with the increase in accuracy of models with deep neural network architecture (DNN), our work is dedicated to developing and training ...
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Ai-Enabled Pneumonia Detection System
(AUST, 2021-05-10)The world is currently facing the global pandemic of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) disrupting large part of the world, the number of patients has grown progressively. For dealing with this serious emergency, accurate ...
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Maleria Prevention Using Social Media and Text Mining
(AUST, 2021-07-18)The battle with malaria especially in the African continent still exists and has been taking the lives of many in the area, so there is a need to keep fighting the battle, monitor progress and challenges. One way is the ...
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Design and Implementation of Multimedia Content on Smartphone for Learning Automata Theory
(AUST, 2013-06-13)Alternative methods of learning that will provide an avenue for students to construct knowledge independently has become the yearning of all and sundry. Computers are revolutionizing the educational institutions as well ...
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Improving Lifting Capacity and Modelling Hydraulics of Local Based Muds Flowing through Vertical Pipes
(2019-06-12)Drilling mud plays an integral part in drilling operations to perform several functions some of which are to cool drill bits, provide hydrostatic pressure and give information about subsurface formation. The cutting ...