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Spring 2022
A noteworthy caprock failure occurred on the Joslyn Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) property in 2006 that continues to have a significant impact on the approval process for future SAGD projects. Two reports were released by Alberta government, which are AER Review and Analysis: Total E&P...
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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...
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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 2016
The Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) is still not in a worldwide operation despite inheriting an old idea which is nearly one and a half century old. Aside from effects by other fuel sources on development of the UCG and from a technical perspective, this delay is due to the complex nature of...
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Spring 2015
The increasing demand for hydrocarbons and decreasing reserves have created the necessity to produce oil and gas more efficiently and economically. Increasingly, oil and gas companies are focusing on unconventional hydrocarbons; oil sands, shales and CBM. For this class of reservoir materials,...
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Heterogeneity Consideration and Upscaling of elastic properties in coupled geomechanical flow simulation of SAGD
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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 2012
While numerical modeling and coupling techniques have been continuously studied, analytical solution or proxy modeling for geomechanical coupling of the steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) has not been clearly addressed in the literature. Simulations aside, there is no particular study on the...