Browsing Theses and Dissertations by Subject "Prof. David Ogbe"
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An Approach to Identifying the Optimal Time to Initiate Stimulation Operations.
(2011-11-20)This research describes the application of a production economic approach which attempts to quantity stimulation treatments performed on different wells undergoing a decline phase in their production and to obtain based ...
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An Approach to Stimulation Candidate Selection and Optimization
(2010-11-15)Well stimulation consists of several methods used for enhancing the natural producing ability of the reservoir when production rate declines. A de tailed literature review of some of the well published stimulation models ...
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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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Building and Ranking of Geostatistical Petroleum Reservoir Models
(2010-12-12)Techniques in Geostatistics are increasingly being used to generate reservoir models and quantify uncertainty in reservoir properties. This is achieved through the construction of multiple realizations to capture the ...
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Case Study of Estimating Wax Appearance Temperature and Application to Wax Deposition Modelling
(2021-12-12)The need for cheap energy to run the world economy has propelled a lot of petroleum companies to produce oils that have high paraffin content. The paraffin, also referred to as wax, poses a problem when it forms and deposits ...
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Comparative Analysis of Limited and Fully Compositional Simulation of a Niger Delta Gas-Condensate Reservoir
(2021-06-23)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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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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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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Diagnosis of Water Production using Artificial Neural Network Models
(2017-12-16)A data-driven approach to solving the problem of excess water production was the focus of this study. In this research, several reservoir models were simulated for 26 years, and data obtained after simulation was used to ...
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Diagnostic Plots for Analysis of Water Production and Reservoir Performance (A Case Study)
(2010-12-12)The research is aimed at the understanding of the various diagnostic plots for the analysis of water production that are available as well as the application of these methods in a case study. It also aimed at the establishment ...
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Evaluating Uncertainty in the Volumes of Fluids in Place in an Offshore Niger Delta Field
(2011-12-12)The purpose of this work is to evaluate the uncertainty in the volumes of fluids in place in Fault Block A (Segment 3) of the G-1 Sands in the OND field located offshore Niger Delta. The evaluation was performed in three ...
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Evaluation of in-fill Well Placement and Optimization Using Experimental Design and Genetic Algorithm
(2014-12-12)Determination of optimal well locations for infill drilling is a challenging task because engineering and geologic variables affecting reservoir performance are often nonlinearly correlated and have some degree of uncertainty ...
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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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Feasibility Analysis of Ethane and Flue Gas Injection for Enhanced Oil Recovery with a Niger Delta Case Study
(2021-05-12)Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) using ethane gas or flue gas has proven to be successful in some regions of the world, but these methods have not been implemented in the Niger Delta. This work investigates the technical and ...
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Genetic Units Based Reservoir Characterization using a Normalized Pore Throat Radius for the Clastic System: Niger Delta as Field Case Study
(2016-12-12)Globally, 30–50% of hydrocarbon volumes in silici-clastic reservoirs are contained within the thin-bedded pay. In the Niger Delta deep water assets, over 30% of in-place volumes are found within the complex turbidites. The ...
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Integrated Modelling and Optimization of Options for Developing Thin Oil Rim Reservoirs: Niger Delta Case Study
(AUST, 2020-09-12)The goal of an oil field development project is to accelerate the hydrocarbon production and maximize recovery at the lowest cost. Optimizing the production of oil from thin oil rim reservoirs poses a major challenge in ...
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Investigating Horizontal-Well Interference Test Applications
(2011-11-20)One of the major challenges in reservoir engineering is the accurate description of the reservoir. This description is essential in all aspects of petroleum engineering, and is typically achieved through reservoir ...
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Ioptimizing Field Performance using Injection Efficiency from Streamline-Based Workflow
(2010-12-12)Waterflooding is one of the most common secondary recovery mechanisms available for improving oil recovery from known accumulations. Due to the limitation of available water for injection, there's a need to optimize the ...
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Luation of Recovery Performance of Gas-Condensate Reservoir using Limited Compositional Simulator
(2018-03-23)In the past years, several researches have been done on gas-condensate reservoir recovery performance using fully compositional simulators. Fully compositional simulators are more expensive, time consuming and have complex ...
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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 ...