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Spring 2018

Lingga, Bob A

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...

Fall 2018

Epp, Tyson R

The Devonian Grosmont formation, located in Alberta, contains vast resources totaling approximately 405 billion barrels of crude bitumen-in-place. The highly viscous bitumen is by definition less than 10° API gravity, remaining immobile at Grosmont formation in-situ temperatures. In the oil and...

Fall 2016

Khazaei, Cyrus

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...

Fall 2024

Zhou, Yiru

The structural integrity of underground excavations, resource extraction processes, and the overall safety of geotechnical operations hinge on a comprehensive understanding of brittle rock failure mechanisms and the distribution of internal stress within these formations. This research sheds...

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...

Spring 2012

Azad, Ali

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...

Spring 2022

Khani, Alireza

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...

Fall 2016

Akbarzadeh Kasani, Hossein

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...

Spring 2015

Koohmareh Hosseini, Behrooz

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,...