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Mechanistic Models for Predicting Sand Production: a Case Study of Niger Delta Wells
(2014-12-12)Niger Delta Province is predominantly a friable, unconsolidated sandstone terrain suggesting the expectation of sand production while developing hydrocarbon reserves in such terrain. In this study, a simple and easy-to-use ...
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Effect of Linear Drift on Radial Transport of Tracer in Homogeneous Porous Media
(2014-12-12)Analytical models can be valuable tools to investigate solute transport in porous media. The application of analytical solutions is limited by the perception that they are too cumbersome to derive while their implementation ...
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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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Comparative Economics of Petroleum Production Optimization Techniques
(2014-12-15)Hydrocarbon production in the petroleum industry is often constrained by reservoir heterogeneity, deliverability and capacity of surface facilities, also optimization technique in the petroleum industry requires execution ...
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Detailed Analysis of Pressure Drop in a Large Diameter Vertical Pipe
(2014-12-15)With the ever increasing need to optimize production, the accurate understanding of the mechanics of multi-phase flow and its effect on the pressure drop along the oil-well flow string is becoming more pertinent. The ...
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Analysis of Void Fraction Phase Distribution of Gas-Liquid Flow In a Horizontal Pipe Using Wire Mesh Sensor Data
(2014-12-15)The scope of this work was to make detailed analysis of phase distribution in a horizontal pipe. This detailed analysis has been successfully carried out. Data obtained from wire mesh sensor (WMS) were used for the analyses. ...
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Investigating the Impact of Pressure Depletion on the Estimation of Reserves and Recovery Factors in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
(2014-12-20)The complexity of naturally fractured reservoirs poses constrains on reservoir engineers in estimating reserves and recovery factor in naturally fractured reservoirs. Naturally fractured reservoirs like all other hydrocarbon ...
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Development of Coning Correlations for Oil Rim Reservoirs using Experimental Design and Response Surface Methodology
(2014-12-20)Proper management of thin oil rim reservoirs is required to maximize recovery and minimizes coning tendencies. The objective of this study is to determine the effect of reservoir and fluid properties on coning tendencies ...
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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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Investigating the Behaviour of Air-Silicone Oil Flows in Vertical and Horizontal Pipes for Effective Gas-Liquid Transport
(2016-06-12)The concurrent flow of gas/liquid in pipes poses a great challenge due to the difficulty associated with the flow of fluid. The flow is characterized by the existence of flow regimes which can be identified by the geometrical ...
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Material Balance Application for Brownfield Development
(2016-06-12)The need to re-develop one of the Brown fields located in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria was necessitated by the fact that there are still three undeveloped reservoirs in the field. A total of six stacked reservoirs, A100 ...
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Artificial Neural Network for Diagnosis & Mitigation of Water Production
(2016-06-12)From the inception of the oil and gas industry, water production has always been an aching problem for various operators. Throughout the productive life of a field, oil production is often accompanied with some amount of ...
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Petrophysical Evaluation of Flow units of the Agbada-Akata Formations in the Niger Delta
(2016-06-16)Clastic reservoirs may be heterogeneous and exhibit lateral and vertical variations in porosity and permeability. Therefore, the spatial distribution of the petrophysical properties within the reservoirs is important to ...
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Critical Evaluation of the Correlations used for Estimating Geomechanical Properties for the Niger Delta
(2016-06-16)The study area which is the Niger Delta Province is predominantly an unconsolidated sandstone terrain, the sand grains are friable suggesting the expectation of some geomechanical problems while developing hydrocarbon ...
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Application of Tiab’s Direct Synthesis Technique to Injectivity and fall-off Pressure Transient Test under Non-Isothermal condition
(2016-06-16)In this study, we present a new analytical solution method that accurately corrects the non-isothermal effects from injection and fall-off tests. The derivative of these solutions is applied to develop the Tiab's Direct ...
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Implication of Void Prediction in the Determination of Pressure Gradient in Vertical Pipes
(2016-06-16)This research work mainly investigates the implication of void prediction in the estimation of total pressure gradient in vertical pipes for multiphase flow systems. Experimental data was collected for a multiphase flow ...
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Development of a Gas Condensate Reservoir: Case Study of the Niger Delta
(2016-06-16)Gas condensate reservoirs are single phase at the initial condition. It changes to multiphase when the reservoir conditions are located between the critical point and the cricondentherm of the reservoir in the phase envelope. ...
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An Approach to Waterflood Optimization: Case Study
(2016-06-16)Waterflooding is the most dominant secondary oil recovery method and its popularity is mainly due to the general availability of water, the relative ease of injecting water, the ability of water to spread easily through ...
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Critical Evaluation of Infill Well Placement and Optimization of Well Spacing Using the Particle Swarm Algorithm
(2016-06-16)Optimizing the placement of new wells and well spacing is a vital issue in oil field development. Drilling infill wells is one way to maximize the recovery of oil from reservoirs. The problem of infill well placement is ...
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An Approach Towell Placement and Productionin a Green Field – A Case Study
(2016-06-20)Reservoir development planning and well placement significantly affect hydrocarbon recovery. Therefore, strategic well placement and development techniques are essential to minimize the risk of unproductive drilling and ...