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- 13D Sequentially Coupled Reservoir Geomechanical Analysis
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Fall 2009
A common challenge during deposition of slurries is segregation as large particles settle through the matrix of fines and water. Whether segregation occurs or not depends on the grain size distribution of the solids, the void ratio or solids content and the rheological properties of the...
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Reservoir and geomechanical coupled simulation of CO2 sequestration and enhanced coalbed methane recovery
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Coalbeds are an extremely complicated porous medium with characteristics of heterogeneity, dual porosity and stress sensitivity. In the past decades great achievements have been made to the simulation models of pressure depletion coalbed methane (CBM) recovery process and CO2 sequestration and...
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Design, Deployment, Performance and Assessment of Downhole and Near Surface Monitoring Technology for Geological CO2 Storage
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Early carbon storage research and development efforts in Canada and elsewhere began with “value-added” projects such as CO2-enhanced oil recovery or CO2 enhanced coalbed methane, where the increase in production helps to offset the costs of CO2 and of its potential long-term storage. These...
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Methodology for Assessing Transport Properties of Wells Used in the Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide
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One of the aspects of climate change is global warming, which can be defined as the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and the oceans and its projected continuation. Scientific understanding of the cause of global warming has been increasing. In its fourth...
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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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Spring 2016
The Joslyn steam release incident in 2006 has significantly influenced the approval process for steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) projects, which now require rigorous caprock integrity assessment to be conducted. In the past, most of the research efforts have been devoted to reservoir...
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Numerical Study of Reservoir Geomechanical Pressuremeter Testing under Anisotropic In-situ Stresses
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The anisotropy of horizontal stresses in the saturated medium presents tremendous difficulties to the determination of in-situ rock properties especially when the formation is poorly overconsolidated. The application of reservoir geomechanical pressuremeter designed to pressurize the borehole at...
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Modeling of Recovery and In-situ Distribution of Fracturing Fluid in Shale Gas Reservoirs Due to Fracture Closure, Proppant Distribution and Gravity Segregation
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Many stimulated shale gas wells experience surprisingly low fracturing fluid recoveries. Fracture closure, gravity segregation, fracture tortuosity, proppant distribution, drawdown pressure and shut-in (soaking) duration have been widely postulated to be the contributing factors. Despite propped...
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Spring 2018
Due to the natural heterogeneity of rock there exists a large variance between samples in geomechanical engineering testing. Additionally, the number of samples available for testing that meet the screening requirements for grain size, mineralogy, bedding orientation and moisture content can...
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Geomechanical Controls on Multiphase Fluid Flow in Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs
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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...