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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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Fiscal System Design and Economic Evaluation for Petroleum Resource Development in Ghana
(2019-06-12)Petroleum fiscal regime defines the extent to which the host government and the prospective investor can apportion risks and share project rewards. Ghana’s petroleum industry has become an attractive place for most investors ...
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Framework for Optimal Economic Exploration and Exploitation of Petroleum Resources in Cameroon
(AUST, 2021-06-03)Economic exploration and exploitation of petroleum resources is regarded as being optimal when the surrounding fiscal regime is mutually beneficial to both the government and the investors as well as other stakeholders, ...
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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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Hydrodynamics Behaviour of Slug Flow in 80 0 off the Horizontal Pipe using Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) Data
(2014-12-12)This study presents an investigation of the hydrodynamics behaviour of slug flow in an inclined (80 degree inclination) and 67 mm internal diameter pipe. The study provides a more rudimentary explanation into the physical ...
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Identification of Closed Perforations and Damaged Sections of Horizontal Wells in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs, using Well Test Analysis
(2016-07-16)The use of horizontal wells with zonal isolations is a common completion practice in the oil and gas industry to check for very significant production challenges such as wellbore damage/skin, early water breakthrough and ...
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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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Implications of Production Decline Patterns, Cost Depreciation Methods and Fiscal Regimes on Offshore Profitability in Nigeria
(2011-12-20)Upstream petroleum industry remains one of the most prolific industries in terms of technology and risk capital transfer. Consequently, governments all over the world try to formulate political as well as economic structures ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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In Situ CO 2 EOR Mechanism and CO 2 -OIL Phase Behavior
(2019-06-23)Numerical reservoir simulators are employed to obtain meaningful and reliable solutions for an actual case due to extreme complexity of the reservoirs systems. Wilcox formation is a reservoir in the gulf of Mexico with ...
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Injectivity as a Critical Factor in The Performance of Water Flooding Operation
(AUST, 2021-04-02)Petroleum exploration, development and operation usually involves large capital investments that requires maximum reserves be recovered, so as to compensate for initial investment efforts. To achieve such a goal, where the ...
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Integrated Petrophysical Evaluation of Turbiditic Sands in Niger Delta Basin
(2014-12-12)Large quantities of petroleum resources in the Niger Delta province are confined to unconsolidated turbiditic and silici-clastic rocks. These rocks are usually associated with high volumes of shale. The high volumes of ...
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Integrated Reservoir Characterization: a Case Study of an Onshore Reservoir in Niger Delta Basin
(2011-10-12)Reservoir characterization has long been identified as the ultimate process employed in detailed description of a reservoir in order to properly book the reserve and also to optimally place the wells and drain the reservoir. ...
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Integrating Petrophysical and Elastic Rock Properties Log- (VP / Vs Ratios) for Log-Facies Classification in Static Reservoir Modelling in the Kk Field, Niger Delta
(2011-12-12)As reservoirs become more complex and drilling operations more expensive, the need to reduce both inefficiencies and costs for constructing and analyzing high quality static models is essential. The effective and efficient ...
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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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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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Investigating the Behaviour of Two-Phase Vertical Upward and Downward flows in Large Diameter Pipe
(AUST, 2019-06-15)The understanding of the behaviour of vertical upward and downward two-phase flow in large diameter pipes is very important in chemical, petroleum and nuclear sector where safety is of utmost concern. This work helps to ...
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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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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 ...