Browsing by Author "Holditch, Stephen A."
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Grover, Tarun (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)Natural gas hydrates are solid crystalline substances found in the subsurface. Since gas hydrates are stable at low temperatures and moderate pressures, gas hydrates are found either near the surface in arctic regions ...
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Dong, Zhenzhen (2012-10-19)In 1997, Rogner published a paper containing an estimate of the natural gas in place in unconventional reservoirs for 11 world regions. Rogner's work was assessing the unconventional gas resource base, and is now considered ...
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Lee, Byungtark (2011-10-21)In geothermal reservoirs and unconventional gas reservoirs with very low matrix permeability, fractures are the main routes of fluid flow and heat transport, so the fracture permeability change is important. In fact, ...
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Xue, Wenxu (2011-02-22)Hydraulic fracturing of a naturally-fractured reservoir is a challenge for industry, as fractures can have complex growth patterns when propagating in systems of natural fractures in the reservoir. Fracture propagation ...
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Min, Kyoung (2013-07-16)Better understanding and control of crack growth direction during hydraulic fracturing are essential for enhancing productivity of geothermal and petroleum reservoirs. Structural analysis of fracture propagation and impact ...
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Kankaria, Sneha (2017-10-17)One of the factors for the success of matrix acidizing of carbonate reservoirs is the selection of appropriate stimulation fluids. Till date, the most common acid for carbonate stimulation is HCl due to ease of its ...
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Shaker Mousa, Mina Romany (2018-10-24)The application of statistical analysis and data analytics is not widespread in the petroleum industry, but is gaining recognition and will be applied more in the future. Applying these tools could improve the accuracy and ...
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Xiang, Jing (2012-02-14)Hydraulic fracturing is an important method used to enhance the recovery of oil and gas from reservoirs, especially for low permeability formations. The distribution of pressure in fractures and fracture geometry are needed ...
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Old, Sara (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)As conventional resources are depleted, unconventional gas (UG: gas from tight sands, coal beds, and shale) resources are becoming increasingly important to U.S and world energy supply. The volume of UG resources is generally ...
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Diyashev, Ildar (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)This research is focused on development and enhancement of the model of fluid flow in a formation with stress-dependent permeability. Several typical axi-symmetrical problems of fluid flow in a multi-layered reservoir with ...
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Yu, Meng (2012-07-16)Viscoelastic surfactant have found numerous application in the oil fields as fracturing and matrix acidizing fluid additives in the recent years. They have the ability to form long worm-like micelles with the increase in ...
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Zhou, Jing (2019-02-27)Removing oil-based drilling fluid (OBDF) filter cake is a difficult task. Low removal efficiency of filter cake may result in pay zone damage, including drilling fluid filtrate incompatibilities with reservoir fluids, fines ...
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Li, Lingling (2012-07-16)A new type of viscoelastic amphoteric surfactants (amidoamine oxide) has been examined as a diverting agent during acidizing treatment. Rheological properties of viscoelastic surfactants are a function of surfactant ...
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Narahara, Gene Masao (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)The advancement of technology in producing tight gas sands requires not only the rock property measurements, but also, the advancement of measurement techniques. In low permeability cores, conventional techniques for ...
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Ramaswamy, Sunil (2009-05-15)Over the past three decades, coalbed methane (CBM) has moved from a mining hazard and novel unconventional resource to an important fossil fuel that accounts for approximately 10% of the U.S. natural gas production and ...
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Malpani, Rajgopal Vijaykumar (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Essentially all producing wells drilled in tight gas sands and shales are stimulated using hydraulic fracture treatments. The development of optimal fracturing procedures, therefore, has a large impact on the long-term ...
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Wang, Yilin (2009-05-15)In the coming decades, the world will require additional supplies of natural gas to meet the demand for energy. Tight gas reservoirs can be defined as reservoirs where the formation permeability is so low (< 0.1 md) that ...
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Xiong, Hongjie (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Well stimulation plays a major role in enhancing oil and gas flow rate and recovery. Most oil and gas wells drilled and completed will eventually require an acidizing treatment or a fracturing treatment to improve oil and ...
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Serajian, Vahid (2011-10-21)Hydraulic fracturing of transverse isotropic reservoirs is of major interest for reservoir stimulation and in-situ stress estimation. Rock fabric anisotropy not only causes in-situ stress anisotropy, but also affects ...
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Agrawal, Archna (2010-07-14)methane and other higher order hydrocarbons, through C4, with interest in further developing reactions important to methane- and ethane-related chemistry. With the increased demand for energy and the declining conventional ...