Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Hascakir, Berna"
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An Experimental Investigation of Water Influence on Dry Forward In-situ Combustion
Kudryavtsev, Philipp (2013-10-08)In-situ combustion (ISC), also known as fire flooding, is not a new thermal enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique. It is a potential alternative for heavy oil production when other thermal EOR methods are not adequate in ... -
An Investigation of New In-Situ-Generated Acid for Carbonate Mineral Dissolution in Sandstone and Carbonate Cores
Pummarapanthu, Thanakrich (2016-07-15)Matrix acidizing is a well stimulation technique in which an acid solution is injected into the formation to dissolve some of the minerals to recover or increase the permeability in the near-wellbore region. The most common ... -
Analysis of Saturates, Aromatics, Resins, Asphaltenes (SARA), Water, and Clays in Water-Oil Emulsions for Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) & Expanding Solvent-SAGD (ES-SAGD)
Kar, Taniya (2015-08-05)The presence of complex water-in-oil emulsions is a growing concern in heavy oil recovery due to the complexity and expenses involved in separating the water from the produced oil. Hence, it is of paramount importance to ... -
Application and Evaluation of a New Type of Solvent to Reduce the Viscosity of Heavy and Extra-Heavy Oil
Afra, Salar (2016-11-30)Increasing global demand for oil, coupled with high depletion rates of conventional oil resources, make the exploitation and production of unconventional oil resources necessary. Heavy and extra-heavy oil have been ... -
Bridging the Gap between Produced Water and Source Water: An Economic Analysis of Produced Water Treatment
Hussey, Tyler Franklin (2017-04-28)Accumulating seismicity and groundwater contamination concerns are fueling increased regulations that can significantly burden an exploration and production (E&P) company’s water management budget – especially in a low-cost ... -
CHARACTERIZING THE PRODUCTIVE LIMIT OF THE NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA MARCELLUS DRY GAS WINDOW: AN INVESTIGATION OF LOW RESISTIVITY ALONG THE LINE OF DEATH
Miller, Noah Mitchell (2017-11-03)The Marcellus Shale is the single largest U.S. natural gas resource, both currently and for the foreseeable future. Whereas the Northeast Pennsylvania Marcellus Dry Gas Window produces a significant portion of total Marcellus ... -
CO2 Applications in Unconventional Reservoirs “Coalbed Methane, Natural Depletion and CO2 Sequestration”
Ibrahim, Ahmed Mohamed Farid (2017-10-26)Unconventional reservoirs are getting an increase in attention in the oil and gas industry. This is because of the high energy demands from all over the world, which cannot be satisfied by conventional resources alone. ... -
CO2 EOR Simulation in Unconventional Liquid Reservoirs: An Eagle Ford Case Study
Phi, Tuan Thanh (2016-08-01)The purpose of this work is to perform an improved method to optimize different CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) processes in unconventional liquid reservoirs, particularly in the volatile oil region of the Eagle Ford shale. ... -
Corrosion of C-95, N-80, S13Cr Metal at HP/HT Conditions and the Effects of Viscoelastic Surfactants on Corrosion
Ng, Jun Hong Clarence (2017-07-13)In the oil and gas industry, corrosion damage during treatments often occurs due to the use of corrosive treatment fluids and can result in problems such as tubular or equipment failure, and leaking. These problems can ... -
Effect of Initial Oil Saturation on In-Situ Combustion Performance of a Canadian Bitumen
Aleksandrov, Denis (2013-05-31)In-Situ Combustion (ISC) is a very complex thermal recovery process that is strongly affected by the chemical composition and physical properties of reservoir rock and fluids. Stability of the process depends on the amount ... -
Emulsion Formation Mechanism for Steam & Solvent-Steam Processes for Bitumen Recovery
Kar, Taniya (2017-08-07)Hydrocarbon solvents are known to improve the overall oil recovery from oil sands when co-injected with steam, compared to steam injection alone in thermal enhanced oil recovery. However, the quality of the recovered oil ... -
Enhancing Foam Stability by the Use of Surfactants Mixtures for EOR Purposes
Almobarky, Mohammed Abdullah M. (2017-12-06)This experimental research investigates the opportunity to enhance the oil recovery by enhancing the foam stability by the use of surfactants mixtures in comparison with individual surfactants. The mixtures were prepared ... -
Evaluate the Usage of Eco-Friendly Bio-Oils as Asphaltene Anti-Sludge Agent in Matrix Acidizing
Alrashidi, Hessah Gh S A M (2018-02-09)Asphaltene precipitation, flocculation, and deposition are vital problems that may cause serious damage to reservoirs, wells, and production facilities. Asphaltene precipitation may occur during primary depletion or acidizing ... -
Feasibility Of Environmentally Friendly Solvent in Bitumen Recovery Through Solvent-Steam Processes
Ng, Alwin Zhen Yang (2018-06-28)Steam flooding is the most widely used and reliable thermal enhanced oil recovery (EOR) process to recover bitumen. However, the excessive water required to generate steam causes environmental concerns. Thus, a noble idea ... -
Flow Control Devices in SAGD Completion Design: Enhanced Heavy Oil/Bitumen Recovery Through Improved Thermal Efficiencies
Banerjee, Sudiptya (2016-12-09)The volume of heavy oil/bitumen recoverable worldwide is vast in quantity but difficult and energy intensive to extract due to the high in-situ oil viscosity of these unconventional plays. One method of thermal recovery, ... -
Improving the Characteristics of Water-Based Drilling Fluids Using Nanoparticles
Mahmoud, Omar Saad Ahmed (2017-11-28)The capabilities of different types of nanoparticles (NPs) had been exploited to develop a water-based drilling fluid having better characteristics for harsh drilling conditions. More specifically, the objectives of this ... -
Interpretation, Analysis and Design of Inter-well Tracer Tests in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Alramadhan, Aymen Abduljalil (2013-08-19)In order to understand the complex fracture network that controls water movement in Sherrod Area of Spraberry Field in West Texas and to better manage the on-going waterflood performance, a field scale inter-well tracer ... -
Investigation of Remaining Saturation from Gas Gravity Drainage Based on Time Lapse X-Ray CT Tomography with Application in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Martinez Antunez, Erick Rafael (2016-08-24)Naturally fractured reservoirs (NFR) represent an important fraction of oil reserves in the world.In many of the NFR, significant volumes of oil have been or are expected to be recovered from the matrix due to the presence ... -
Investigation of Seismic Surveys and Enhancement of Seismic Images
Bilgi, Celal (2015-06-05)The ability to recover a seismic image of subsurface structure from recorded seismic data plays an important role in exploration of seismology applications. Processing techniques are applied to recover the geology from ... -
Microscopic Displacement of Bitumen During Solvent-Steam-Flooding: Effects of Reservoir Clays and Solvent Type
Salles da Costa Coelho, Raphael (2016-04-26)Solvent-steam-flooding (SSF) processes have several advantages over steamflooding for bitumen extraction. It is well known that the addition of solvent increases oil production and mitigates environmental impacts due to ...