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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 14Geomechanics
- 4SAGD
- 2Coal
- 13D Sequentially Coupled Reservoir Geomechanical Analysis
- 13D printing
- 13DEC
- 1Akbarzadeh Kasani, Hossein
- 1Azad, Ali
- 1Cartagena Perez, Daniel Felipe
- 1Deisman, Nathan L
- 1Haghi, Amir Hossein
- 1Hamoud, Mohamed
- 5Chalaturnyk, Rick (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 2Chalaturnyk, Richard J. (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Apel, Derek (School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering)
- 1Boisvert, Jeff (Mining Engineering)
- 1Chalaturnyk, Richard J. (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Chalaturnyk, Rick (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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Effects of Triaxial Stress and Strain on Multiphase Flow in 3D-Printed Fractured Reservoir Rock Analogues
DownloadFall 2024
The oil and gas industry, fundamental to the global energy economy, faces an ever-increasing quest for new reserves to meet growing demand. Hydrocarbon reservoirs, dynamic systems by nature, undergo significant changes throughout their lifecycle, particularly due to deformation from effective...
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Fall 2016
Deisman N, and Chalaturnyk RJ. 2008. A methodology for hydrogeomechanical characterization of coalseam reservoirs. The 61st Canadian Geotechnical Conference held in Edmonton, Canada. Sept 21-24, 2008. (GeoEdmonton ’08), Paper 82, Edmonton, Canada.
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Geomechanical Controls on Multiphase Fluid Flow in Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs
DownloadSpring 2020
Carbonate formations host 50% of the world’s oil and gas reserves and a major portion of the world’s groundwater resources. Additionally, 85% of carbonate reservoirs are naturally fractured. Porous rock matrix and fractures in carbonate formations can be greatly influenced by the effective...
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Heterogeneity Consideration and Upscaling of elastic properties in coupled geomechanical flow simulation of SAGD
DownloadFall 2013
Geomechanical processes occurring during steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) thermal recovery influence petrophysical and rock mechanical properties of both reservoir and caprock formations. While geostatistical techniques provide multiple equi probable geological realizations for...
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Spring 2010
Rodriguez-de la Torre, Rhamid Hortensia
Since oil and gas production from conventional fields is decreasing, the produc-tion of unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs is becoming imperative, where geo-mechanical responses play an important role. This research presents a methodology that starts exploring the inclusion of geomechanics in...
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Fall 2012
Relative permeability curves represent an important element of special core analyses, but challenges remain in obtaining valid results and the extrapolation and use of existing permeability results is problematic. This situation is compounded in cases where core properties are altered from...
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Fall 2019
The impact of geomechanical behavior in the SAGD process has received increased attention over the last decade because of its importance in assessing caprock integrity and potential influence on production performance. The deformations and potential shear failures in the reservoir lead to...
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Spring 2018
Backfill utilization has been necessary for underground mining practices ever since the scarcity of economic minerals near ground surface started shallow underground mining. Economic factors inevitably realized this condition. Mine waste disposal and ground support means led to backfill...
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Fall 2016
Two major applications of microseismic (MS) monitoring in petroleum engineering are hydraulic fracturing operations and caprock integrity assurance. With respect to caprock integrity, this research has investigated the observation of the absence of detectable magnitudes of microseismic events as...
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Fall 2024
Cartagena Perez, Daniel Felipe
This thesis looks for modelling physically the cyclic solvent injection as enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique used in unconsolidated heavy oil reservoirs, particularly those subjected to Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sands (CHOPS) methods. CHOPS reservoirs are characterized by their low...