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- 1Carbon Storage, Shale, Pemeability, Capillary Pressure, Batch Reaction
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Fall 2013
Batch reaction tests were conducted on Lea Park shale from Pembina Cardium Field in Alberta to investigate geochemical alterations induced by exposing brine/CO2 mixtures at designed pressure and temperature. Dissolution of illite and growth of cluster-coating structures were observed on rock...
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Spring 2022
This study, which adopts the physical modelling technique to investigate caprock deformation behaviour, intends to elucidate the impact of steam chamber expansion rate on caprock integrity. This study develops a synthetic material to replicate the behaviour of Clearwater Formation shale for the...
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Spring 2014
The Grosmont Formation in Alberta is a heterogeneous carbonate reservoir of current interest for bitumen extraction, specifically within the vuggy porosity unit. The current research addresses the effects of vugs on the strength and stiffness of carbonate samples under uniaxial compression....
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Fall 2010
A laboratory experiment and a numerical simulation of a dual well pair SAGD process with live bitumen were conducted to examine operating strategies on the recovery performance of a multiple well pair SAGD process. The experiment was successfully carried out under such operation strategies as...
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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,...