Browsing by Subject "oil and gas"
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(2020-04-13)In a world where energy demands are increasing and resources are depleting, gaining better insights into fluid saturation distributions and transport mechanisms within hydrocarbon reservoirs at the pore scale will be ...
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(2018-07-17)The present experiment attempts to study the behavior of proppant mixed with fibers in slickwater fracturing using a large-scale flow equipment. Previous experiments have shown that, at small scale, PGA fibers in slickwater ...
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(2010-10-12)Padre Island National Seashore provides important habitat for wintering grassland birds, which are declining throughout their breeding range, yet oil and gas development is widespread in the park. My objective was to ...
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(2021-07-27)For many years, high water-cuts in the Delaware basin have been the source of much frustration for oil and gas operators producing in the region. The goal of this thesis was to construct automated workflows which are capable ...
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(2020-04-20)The primary objective of this work is to provide the validation and ranking of numerous decline curve analysis models. From the validation cases analyzed in this research best practice guidelines for each of the decline ...
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Numerical Modeling of Pumping Responses in Shallow Aquifer Systems Containing an Abandoned Borehole (2022-04-19)With the number of abandoned wells increasing each year and a previously estimated three million abandoned oil and gas wells in the United States, the impact of these wells on shallow groundwater aquifers is a growing ...
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(2016-12-02)Successful risk management in an offshore oil and gas production platform requires accurate and up-to-date probability of occurrence of process safety events. Traditional hazard identification and risk assessment techniques ...
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(2014-04-29)Natural attenuation is a cost effective method to treat wastewater applied into soil. The natural attenuation process includes diffusion, dispersion, microbial activity, oxidation, mineral precipitation, sorption, and ion ...