Browsing by Author "Pope, Michael"
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Zhou, Yuhai (2019-11-19)Matrix acidizing is an effective stimulation technique for carbonate reservoirs and it has been practiced for years in the industry. By injecting acid below the formation fracturing pressure, highly permeable paths called ...
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Guerra, Jesse Mateo (2019-05-29)The objective of this study was to further the understanding of fracture conductivity and its dependence on rock mechanical properties, mineralogy, and fracture surface attributes, as well as its impairment due to flowback, ...
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Barry, Travis (2012-02-14)Carbonate reservoirs may have a variety of porosity types created by depositional, diagenetic, and fracture processes. This leads to the formation of complex pore systems, and in turn creates heterogeneities in reservoir ...
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Phillips, John David (2017-05-10)Protodunes are precursors to the development of sand dunes and, all else being equal, protodune stratification should occur in the stratigraphic record associated with dune stratification. However, the internal stratification ...
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Pruett, Paiden (2019-04-22)Throughout the Earth’s lithosphere, from its formation at spreading centers to its termination at subduction and/or obduction environments, serpentinization and carbonation processes of mantle rock are recognized as important ...
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Zhang, Xiaodong (2017-07-24)The Upper Cretaceous Buda Formation in central Texas is overlain by Eagle Ford group (or False Buda unit locally), and overlying the Del Rio Formation (Grayson Formation). The Buda Formation outcrop exposes from west Texas ...
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Meyer, Melissa J (2018-03-30)Whole-rock elemental data is a useful tool for sub-dividing and characterizing mudrock variability across a shale basin. The chemostratigraphy of the Cenomanian-Turonian the Woodbine and Eagle Ford Groups in the Brazos ...
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Trapp, Mary Elizabeth (2021-12-01)The Late Cretaceous Austin Group, across the outcrops and subsurface of Texas, are faced with numerous, often provincial, terminologies based on different lithologic, faunal, and petrophysical markers used to define internal ...
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Carrascal Delgado, Fabian Alfredo (2021-12-08)The objective of this study was to implement the use of drill cuttings in hydraulic fracturing-related operations. Two specific uses were studied: the use of drill cuttings as propping agents in hydraulic fracturing, and ...
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Figueroa, Ana Cristina (2019-07-24)Carbonate rocks are a significant component of future petroleum endeavors, but due to complex pore geometries display a lower average recovery factor in comparison to sandstone reservoirs. To recover residual oil and gas ...
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Briggs, Kathryn (2014-05-05)Hydraulic fracturing is the primary stimulation method within low permeability reservoirs, in particular shale reservoirs. Hydraulic fracturing provides a means for making shale reservoirs commercially viable by inducing ...
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Casey, Michael Chase (2011-08-08)This thesis integrated geology, geophysics, and petroleum engineering data to build a detailed reservoir characterization models for three gas pay sands in the Grand Isle 33 & 43 fields, offshore Louisiana. The reservoirs ...
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Zhang, Tingting (2014-12-12)Carbonate reservoir characterization based on rock physics and seismic inversion helps in better understanding the influence of deposition and diagenesis on rock property. In this dissertation, I first study a modern ...
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Foran, William James (2016-05-27)In an attempt to maintain production levels during times of depressed pricing, some are exploring the practice of refracturing already hydraulically fractured wells currently within their operating portfolio. This study ...
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Xu, Guangjian (2019-08-07)Mechanical stratigraphy strongly impacts the growth of hydraulic fractures in shale reservoirs. Without a complete understanding of the properties of the target and surrounding intervals, it is hard to predict the bulk ...
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Quezergue, Kimbra Rose (2014-12-05)Stromatolites are formed by physical, biological, and chemical processes, and combinations of specific processes produced the great variety of textures and morphologies in the geologic record. I here introduce a new technique ...
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Zeng, Zhirui (2014-11-21)Microbial processes have driven biogeochemical cycles and modified the Earth’s surface throughout geologic time. Some microbial physiologies created unique chemo-physical conditions to influence mineral precipitation and ...
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Oyewole, Emmanuel O. (2015-12-12)The assessment of directional permeability in carbonate formations is challenging due to their complex pore structure and anisotropic pore-network properties. Previous studies have shown that permeability is controlled by ...
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Barney, Bryce B (2020-10-26)Throughout the Phanerozoic, δ18O of carbonate fossils displays an increasing trend of -8‰ VPDB in the Cambrian to approximately -1‰ VPDB in the modern. This trend has led to three different hypotheses: 1) sea surface ...
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Albader, Ahmad (2019-04-05)Due to the complex nature and importance of porosity in carbonate systems, it has been extensively studied and characterized. Many porosity types and textures have been strongly associated with certain chemical and physical ...