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- 1Adsorption
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- 1Abbasi, Majid A
- 1Makhanov, Kaiyrzhan Kh
- 1Parmar, Jaskaran Singh
- 1Rashed, Yara A
- 1Roostaei, Morteza
- 1Taghipoor, Siavash
- 3Dehghanpour, Hassan (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Chan, Dave (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Chan, Dave (Geotechnical Engineering)
- 1Dehghanpour, Hassan (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Petroleum Engineering)
- 1Gamal El-Din, Mohamed (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Kuru, Ergun (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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A Comparative Study of Flowback Rate and Pressure Transient Behaviour in Multifractured Horizontal Wells
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Tight reservoirs stimulated by multistage hydraulic fracturing are commonly characterized by analyzing the hydrocarbon production data. However, analyzing the hydrocarbon production data can best be applied to estimate the effective fracture-matrix interface, and is not enough for a full fracture...
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Spring 2019
The increasing demand for fossil energy and the decreasing trend of conventional resources have shifted the focus of industry towards unconventional resources including shale gas, shale oil, tight gas, tight oil, and coalbed methane. Recent advances in stimulation techniques, including horizontal...
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Fall 2013
Massive hydraulic fracturing operations conducted in shale reservoirs create extensive fracture networks to enhance recovery of hydrocarbons from low permeability shale reservoirs. Fluid invasion into the shale matrix is identified as one of the possible mechanisms leading to low fracturing fluid...
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Displacement of Water by Gas in Propped Fractures: Effect of Fracture Fluid Surface Tension, Viscosity, Proppant Wettability and Gravity
DownloadFall 2013
Inefficient recovery of fracturing water used in multi-stage hydraulic fracturing operations is a growing industrial concern. Non-recovered water can be trapped in the tight rock matrix and/or in the complex fracture network. Trapped water can block the gas flow and damage the reservoir. This...
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Fall 2017
Hydraulic fracturing is a technique to enhance hydrocarbon production by inducing fracture(s) into reservoir rock. A fracture is induced by injecting fluid into the reservoir at pressures greater than the formation breakdown pressure. The fracture(s) geometry, mode, initiation and propagation...
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Fall 2017
This research focuses on the study of mechanisms of proppant transport in reservoirs during frac-packing operation. As an attempt to improve current numerical modeling of proppant transport, a multi-module, numerical proppant, reservoir and Geomechanics simulator was developed, linked and...
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Reclamation of Unconventional Oil Processed Water through the Adsorption of Naphthenic Acids by Carbon Xerogel
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This study examines the use of carbon xerogel (CX) material for the adsorption of naphthenic acids (NAs). The adsorption of NAs is crucial for the reclamation of unconventional oil processed water, more specifically Alberta’s oil sands process-affected water (OSPW). CX material is synthesized at...