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Spring 2012
Aqueous colloidal gas aphrons (CGAs) have previously been used as drilling fluids because of their pore blocking ability which significantly reduces formation damage. The aim of this study is to generate aqueous colloidal gas aphrons, to examine its stability and rheology as well as to...
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Spring 2014
Physics-based large-scale reservoir models are routinely employed in the prediction of the SAGD (Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage) process under different operation situations. However, due to the uncertainty of the reservoir and the limitations of the commercial reservoir simulators, the...
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Applications of Ensemble Kalman Filter for characterization and history matching of SAGD reservoirs
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Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is the most robust thermal recovery process that has unlocked western Canadian heavy oil and bitumen reserves into economical recovery. The prime challenges in SAGD heavy oil developments and well planning in the Northern Alberta formations are:...
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Fall 2017
Due to unsatisfactory sweep efficiency of gas injection, foams, CO2 foams in particular, are utilized to reduce residual oil saturation. Conventionally, generation and stabilization of CO2 foams are achieved by surfactants. However, foams, stabilized via this traditional method, tend to sustain...
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Evaluating the Potential of CO2 Foam and CO2 Polymer Enhanced Foam for Heavy Oil Recovery in Fractured Reservoirs: Pore-Scale and Core-Scale Studies
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Besides oil-sand reserves that should be recovered by thermal recovery methods, there are significant reserves of conventional light to heavy crude oil in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) that can be also recovered by non-thermal processes. Several carbonate reservoirs have undergone...
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Experimental investigation of the effect of elasticity on the sweep efficiency in viscoelastic polymer flooding operations
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This study aims to investigate the effect of elastic properties of viscoelastic polymer solutions on the microscopic sweep efficiency in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations. The effect of elasticity was studied as isolated from the shear viscosity effect using polymer blends with identical...
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Experimental Study on Effect of hydrophobicity on Polymer Conformations, Rheology and Flow in Porous Media
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Typically, polymer screening for enhanced oil recovery operations is done based on viscosity, viscosity dependent molecular weight correlations, and concentration. However, direct measurement of molecular weight and Molecular Weight Distribution (MWD) along with the other conformational...
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Spring 2010
Rodriguez-de la Torre, Rhamid Hortensia
Since oil and gas production from conventional fields is decreasing, the produc-tion of unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs is becoming imperative, where geo-mechanical responses play an important role. This research presents a methodology that starts exploring the inclusion of geomechanics in...