In this dissertation several unresolved issues related to reservoir characterization and simulation techniques are investigated so that improvements can be made in their reliability and efficiency. Geostatistical techniques ...

Among the recent technological breakthroughs that have revolutionized the search for oil and its production are innova-tions realized in the field of horizontal drilling. Once dormant, this practice is fast becoming routine ...

During the past two decades, approximately one formulation per year has been published for compositional simulators. However, until now, no consistent comparison has been made on any of them. Three of these formulations ...

The theory for a single component moving point finite difference method is extended for multicomponent, multi phase porous media flow problems in one dimension. The modified technique is applied for the solution of a three ...

The transport and filtration of particulate suspensions in porous media is a process of considerable importance in science and engineering. Despite the great deal of work that has been done in this area two fundamental ...

A two-dimensional, compositional simulator has been developed and applied to micellar/polymer flooding. This simulator can model both heterogeneous areal reservoirs and heterogeneous vertical reservoir cross-sections. ...

Static measurements of the phase volumes of mixtures of surfactant, polymer, alcohol, water, n-octane, sodium chloride, and in some cases polymer additives were made. A limited number of viscosity, phase concentration, and ...

The transport of water and ions through shales was studied both experimentally and theoretically. Experiments were conducted on the diffusion of ions and water through shale at elevated stress levels similar to those ...

Hot brines in geopressured sandstones contain significant quantities of dissolved natural gas. If these sandstones are capable of producing brines at high rates, the natural gas and thermal energy may be economically ...

A systematic study of the formation damage and filtrate loss associated with the dynamic filtration of both water and oil based muds is presented. Experiments were conducted in a specially designed core holder to measure ...