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Review of Application of Pressure Derivative Concept to Multirate Tests
(2009-12-15)Pressure build-up data in low permeability reservoirs take too long and are usually of poor quality. A pressure buildup test is perhaps the most widely performed transient test. In pressure buildup test, a well which has ...
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A Review of the Rheological Effects of Power Law Drilling Fluids on Cuttings Transportation in Non-Vertical Boreholes
(2009-12-15)Cuttings transportation during in non-vertical boreholes is necessary for oil and gas wells. Adequate cuttings removal from a well in drilling is critical for cost-effective drilling as high annular cuttings buildup often ...
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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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Sour Gas Injection to Enhance Oil Recovery
(2017-02-13)Proper handling of sour gas produced is crucial to the development of sour reservoirs. Over years of research and practice, many methods of sour gas processing have been developed from the solid storage of sulfur to ...
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Statistical Characterization of Performance of Biopolymer Drill-In Fluid for Different Rheological Models
(2010-11-15)Appropriate selection of rheological models is important for hydraulic calculations of pressure loss prediction and hole cleaning efficiency of drilling fluids. Power law, Bingham-Plastic Herschel-Bulkley models are the ...
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Statistical Data-Driven Models for Forecasting Production Performance with Uncertainty Analysis
(2014-12-20)Data-driven analytical models are important tools employed in the petroleum industry to forecast production rates and reserves of petroleum assets. Studies have shown that existing rate forecasting models project future ...
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The Study of Hydrodynamics of Slug Flow in 10 Degrees Inclined Pipe Using Electrical Capacitance Tomography Data
(2014-12-15)Slug flow along slightly inclined horizontal pipes is a major problem in gas-liquid transportation, it is very pronounced in chemical, oil and gas processing industries. In reality, there is no absolute horizontal pipe due ...
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A Study of the Effect of Liquid Flow Rate, Pipe Size and Pipe Orientation on the Liquid Hold-Up Using Beggs and Brill Correlation
(2009-12-15)The effect of liquid flow rate, pipe size (diameter) and pipe orientation (inclination) on liquid hold-up was investigated. Liquid flow rate between 500 STB/day and 5000 STB/day was studied. An oil of 25 ̊API at an average ...
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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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Techno-Economic Feasibility of Ethane Based Enhanced Oil Recovery in Nigeria (CASE Study: Niger Delta)
(2017-12-15)Increasing oil recovery has been one of the issues enlisted for attention in oil producing countries around the world for past decades. So many forms of oil recovery techniques have been considered; infill drilling of new ...
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Temperature Prediction Model for Flowing Distribution in Wellbores and Pipelines
(2011-12-12)Down-hole temperature and pressure data are important information needed to understand flowing conditions and production optimization. For example, knowing the wellbore temperature profile is useful in predicting the wax ...
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Theoretical Analysis of Gravity-Controlled Waterfloods
(2009-12-15)The concept of dumpflooding is to flow water from a high pressure aquifer zone to a low pressure oil producing zone by natural force of gravity through a well connecting the two zones to enhance oil sweep into a producing ...
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Thermal Transient Testing Using Tds Technique
(2011-12-12)In the estimation of most reservoir parameters in well test, the reservoir is assumed to be isothermal which is practically not true due to the fact that there are heat sources due to friction in the wellbore, works done ...
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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
(2021-07-16)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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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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Utilization of Machine Learning for Flow Assurance in the Oil and Gas Sector: a Focus on Annular Flow Prediction
(2021-07-12)There is insufficient literature for annular flow and applications of Machine Learning in the petroleum industry; thus, this thesis is centred on annular flow prediction. Liquid holdup and flow behaviour during annular ...
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Vertical-Horizontal Permeability Relationships in Stress and Non Stress Sensitive Reservoirs
(2011-12-12)One of the important petrophysical parameter in reservoir description is the permeability distribution in a given reservoir. It is well known that most reservoir are heterogeneous in nature and homogeneous ones been the ...
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Waterflood Optimization using Streamline Simulation
(2011-12-12)Waterflooding is a secondary recovery process in which water compatible with the reservoir of interest is injected into the reservoir to displace residual oil. The goal of waterflood management is to maximize oil recovery ...
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Well Performance in Solution Gas Drive Reservoirs
(2010-12-12)The practical application of various production parameters and relations to predict the well performance analysis of a solution gas drive reservoir is the primary objective of this study. These parameters include: IPR ...