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Fall 2013

Abbasi, Majid A

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...

Spring 2019

Xu, Mingxiang

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...

Fall 2013

Makhanov, Kaiyrzhan Kh

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...

Fall 2013

Parmar, Jaskaran Singh

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...

Spring 2021

Snihur, Katherine N.

Hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling has revolutionized the oil and gas industry in North America. The majority of Canada’s hydraulic fracturing operations are in Alberta and British Columbia, with the Montney and Duvernay formations ranked highest in five hydraulically...

Fall 2020

Seip, Adam

Increased demand for lithium products for use in lithium ion batteries has led to a search for new lithium resources in recent years in order to meet projected future consumption. One such potential lithium resource is low lithium bearing brines that are discharged from hydraulically fractured...

Spring 2021

Zhong, Cheng

The increased development of unconventional resources recovery has dramatically changed the global energy landscape over the past two decades. Hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling, a key technology in recovering these resources, requires large freshwater volumes to fracture the...

Fall 2017

Taghipoor, Siavash

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...

Fall 2017

Roostaei, Morteza

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...

Fall 2017

Rashed, Yara A

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...