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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 2024

Moussa, Tamer

Hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling is the key to unlocking tight reservoirs. However, understanding the relationship between reservoir characteristics, completion design and well productivity remains challenging. In the past decade, over 40,000 multi-fractured horizontal wells...

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...

Spring 2019

Xu, Yanmin

Shale gas is one of the most promising energy resources due to its wide distribution, abundant reserves, and low pollutant emissions to the environment. Although shale gas plays usually have very low permeability and porosity, the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies...

Spring 2018

Shi, Yue

Recent studies show that the pore network of unconventional rocks generally consists of inorganic and organic parts. The organic part has high wetting affinity towards the oleic phase but low wetting affinity towards the aqueous phase. In contrast, the inorganic part has high wetting affinity...

Fall 2017

Ezulike, Obinna D

The application of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques has resulted in the economic production of previously inaccessible hydrocarbon trapped in very-low permeability reservoirs such as Shale gas/oil, tight gas and tight oil. Although the economic production of these...

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

Tran, Son Thai

The rapid decline rates and low oil recovery factor (typically less than 10% of the original oil in place) of primary production are well-known challenges in the development of tight-oil formations. Several enhanced-oil-recovery studies and field trials have been conducted with promising results...

Fall 2021

Doranehgard, Mohammad Hossein

In the first part of this study, we use an analytical approach and the interpolation-supplemented lattice Boltzmann method (ISLBM) to quantify convective and diffusive transport during CO2 dissolution in the oil bulk phase. In the first step, we use a turbulence analogy and the ISLBM to determine...

Spring 2016

Yue, Min

Increasing demand of global energy and limited conventional resources force the petroleum industry to shift their focus towards the low permeability reservoirs such as shale or tight rock reservoir. Multi-fractured horizontal wells have economically unlocked the massive hydrocarbon resources from...