Masters Theses: Recent submissions
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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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Prediction of Surge and Swab Pressure Profile for Flow of Yield Power Law Drilling Fluid Model through Eccentric Annuli
(2011-12-12)Surge and swab pressure computation is very important in drilling hydraulics. Most blowout problem in oil wells have been as a result of surge and swab pressures developed from running or pulling of tubular goods in ...
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Development of Generalized Well Semi-Analytical Coning Models
(2011-11-20)Oil deposits are often found in association with a communicating gas or water zone. The production of the oil often leads to the coning of water or gas. This dynamic interaction can be captured by a properly detailed ...
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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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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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Practical Approaches for Solving Lost Circulation Problems while Drilling
(2011-12-12)As the demand for petroleum resources increases, drilling of oil and gas wells are often carried out in challenging and hostile environments. Among the top ten drilling challenges facing the oil and gas industry today is ...
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Modeling and Simulation of Reservoir Formation Damage due to Chemical Precipitation and Particulate Processes
(2011-11-20)Formation damage is an undesirable operational and economic problem that can occur in many phases of field development including drilling, completion, workover, production, stimulation, waterflooding and enhanced oil ...
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Modeling and Simulation of Reservoir Formation Damage due to Chemical Precipitation and Particulate Processes
(2011-11-20)Formation damage is an undesirable operational and economic problem that can occur in many phases of field development including drilling, completion, workover, production, stimulation, waterflooding and enhanced oil ...
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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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Estimation of Drilling Wastes – an Environmental Concern While Drilling Oil and Gas Wells
(2011-10-20)Despite its numerous benefits the search and production of crude oil poses a lot of dangers to the environment. Among these include land, water and air pollution. Prominent among the major sources of E&P waste is drilling ...
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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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Combined Effect of Rheological Model and Equivalent Diameter Definitions on Pressure Losses/Equivalent Circulating Density Estimation
(2011-12-12)Without accurate estimation of annular pressure losses it is possible to face serious problems that would yield to interruption in drilling operation and sometimes lead to the abandonment of the well. Therefore, exact ...
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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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Development of Breakthrough Time Correlations for Coning in Bottom Water Supported Reservoirs
(2011-12-12)This research work mainly investigates the development and the behavior of cones (both water and gas cones) in oil reservoirs supported by strong aquifer, and from which analytical correlations are developed for quick ...
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Development of a Computer Program for Solids Control
(2011-12-15)Computer software is used extensively to increase productivity and reduce man's hours of labour. This work presents the development of a solids control software (SOLCON) which is designed for real time mud system management ...
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Graphical Evaluation of Cuttings Transport in Deviated Wells using Bingham Plastic Fluid Model
(2011-11-23)The transportation of cuttings and efficient hole cleaning are indispensible in any drilling program. This is because a successful drilling operation is the key to a profitable business in the oil and gas sector. A successful ...
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Deepwater Petroleum Exploration and Production in the Gulf of Guinea: Comparative Analysis of Petroleum Fiscal Systems Performance
(2011-12-12)Petroleum Fiscal System (PFS) is a major determinant of investment decision in the exploration and production of oil and gas in any country. It basically describes the profitability relationship between the host government ...
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Effects of Partial Completion on Productivity Index
(2011-12-12)A new method for analysing productivity index (PI) on vertical wells is the main objective of this study. Well performance is often measured in terms of the well’s productivity which is dependent on a number of factors ...




















