In crude oil transmission pipelines, some parts of the system receive minimal or no fluid flow (dead legs), which can on occasion lead to under deposit corrosion wherein a mixture of sediments, hydrocarbons, water, and microorganisms collectively…
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of massive subsurface data sets from sources such as instrumented wells. This places significant challenges on traditional production-data-analysis methods for extracting useful information in support…
Pipelines enable the largest volume of both intra and international transportation of oil and gas and play critical roles in the energy sufficiency of countries. The biggest drawback with the use of pipelines for oil and gas transportation is the…
In crude oil transmission pipelines, some parts of the system receive minimal or no fluid flow (dead legs), which can on occasion lead to under deposit corrosion wherein a mixture of sediments, hydrocarbons, water, and microorganisms collectively…
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of massive subsurface data sets from sources such as instrumented wells. This places significant challenges on traditional production-data-analysis methods for extracting useful information in support…
Pipelines enable the largest volume of both intra and international transportation of oil and gas and play critical roles in the energy sufficiency of countries. The biggest drawback with the use of pipelines for oil and gas transportation is the…
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of massive subsurface data from instrumented wells. This places significant challenges on traditional production data analysis methods for extracting useful information, in support of reservoir…
In crude oil transmission pipelines, some parts of the system receive minimal or no fluid flow (dead legs), which can on occasion lead to under deposit corrosion wherein a mixture of sediments, hydrocarbons, water, and microorganisms collectively…
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of massive subsurface data sets from sources such as instrumented wells. This places significant challenges on traditional production-data-analysis methods for extracting useful information in support…
With growing worldwide consensus about the impacts of climate change, the oil and gas industry faces unprecedented pressure to minimize its carbon footprint. The biggest source of carbon emissions in the industry is the so-called fugitive emissions,…
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of massive subsurface data from instrumented wells. This places significant challenges on traditional production data analysis methods for extracting useful information, in support of reservoir…
Pipelines enable the largest volume of both intra and international transportation of oil and gas and play critical roles in the energy sufficiency of countries. The biggest drawback with the use of pipelines for oil and gas transportation is the…
With growing worldwide consensus about the impacts of climate change, the oil and gas industry faces unprecedented pressure to minimize its carbon footprint. The biggest source of carbon emissions in the industry is the so-called fugitive emissions,…
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of massive subsurface data from instrumented wells. This places significant challenges on traditional production data analysis methods for extracting useful information, in support of reservoir…
The paper proposes a method of passive leak detection for underwater pipelines by means of phased antenna arrays. It implies element-wise multiplication and addition of the output signals of individual array transducers. The proposed method provides…
In this study, the highly sensing chemo-thermo-piezoresistive smart cement behavior as a function of temperature and pressure with a water-to-cement ratio of 0.38 was investigated. Series of quality control, curing, compression and high-pressure…
With growing worldwide consensus about the impacts of climate change, the oil and gas industry faces unprecedented pressure to minimize its carbon footprint. The biggest source of carbon emissions in the industry is the so-called fugitive emissions,…
In crude oil transmission pipelines, some parts of the system receive minimal or no fluid flow (dead legs), which can on occasion lead to under deposit corrosion wherein a mixture of sediments, hydrocarbons, water, and microorganisms collectively…
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of massive subsurface data sets from sources such as instrumented wells. This places significant challenges on traditional production-data-analysis methods for extracting useful information in support…
Pipelines enable the largest volume of both intra and international transportation of oil and gas and play critical roles in the energy sufficiency of countries. The biggest drawback with the use of pipelines for oil and gas transportation is the…
The rapid growth of liquefied natural gas consumption makes the issues of its transportation more urgent. At present, liquefied natural gas pipeline transportation is carried out only by means of short length process lines. This paper discusses the…
The hydrocarbons components are formed in multiple phase flow of gasses in a variation of temperature, pressure and composition, which results in flow change for hydrocarbon fluid. The presence of solids can cause severe problems in oil and gas…
One of the main challenges in oil transmission lines and petroleum products is fluid impurities especially suspended solids. Suspended solid particles, most of which are caused by corrosion of pipe walls and equipment, have many adverse effects on…
The high viscosity and low surface tension of heavy crude oils, combined with the low relative permeability of the medium, cause their entrapment in the porous reservoir nets, affecting the oil production. In this work, the effect of two…
Natural gas mixture flowing in the transportation pipeline is impure owing to the presence of various impurities. The presence of non-hydrocarbons impurities in natural gas mixture impacts the natural gas properties at different extents. The effect…
Geomechanical evaluation of CO2 underground disposal is complex and can be even more challenging in coal reservoirs due to natural fractures and combined effects of multi-component transport. The objective of the research work presented in this paper…
Reliable analysis of transportation networks is crucial for design and planning purposes. A pipeline network system could range from simple to very sophisticated and complex arrangement: from a single pipe transporting fluid from a place to another…
Production or injection of fluids from/in an underground storage site causes variations of pore pressure and stress states. These fluctuations significantly affect implications for hydraulic fracturing, wellbore integrity, top surface subsidence and…
The application of non-hydrocarbon gas injection for enhanced gas and condensate recovery (EGCR) is still in a developmental stage as the mixing/interaction between the injected gas and resident reservoir fluid is yet to be extensively understood and…
Purpose: : The presence of thermal energy storage devices in concentrated solar power plants is advantageous for controlling power and energy demand. The capacity of materials used in total thermal energy storage is thought to improve their…
Leakage pathways through caprock lithologies for underground storage of CO2 and/or enhanced oil recovery (EOR) include intrusion into nano-pore mudstones, flow within fractures and faults, and larger-scale sedimentary heterogeneity (e.g., stacked…
In a reservoir characterization study of the Hontomin deep saline aquifer, the impact of geological heterogeneities on reservoir storage capacity and the migration of the CO2 plume is explored. This work presents, for the first time, very long-term…
Three different outcrops are selected in this study, each representing a shallow-marine system with varying heterogeneity provided by siliciclasticcarbonate mixing that may form a small or large stratigraphic trap. The impact of these styles of mixed…
Hydrogen (H2) as a cleaner fuel has been suggested as a viable method of achieving the de-carbonization objectives and meeting increasing global energy demand. However, successful implementation of a full-scale hydrogen economy requires large-scale…
The objective of this research is to examine the link between total petroleum systems (TPS), geomodeling and reserves determination with a view to improve production forecasting, and to increase petroleum rates and recoveries while keeping an eye on…
The storage of natural gas in geological structures such as depleted fields, aquifers and salt caverns plays an important role in a gas supply system as it balances the fluctuation of gas demand and price. Hydraulic loss due to fluid flow through gas…
High-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage (HT-ATES) is a cost-effective and suitable technology to store large amounts of energy. HT-ATES has been demonstrated to be an efficient and stable tool to buffer seasonal imbalances and significantly…
Heat transfer enhancement in different engineering systems is a major challenge nowadays. Phase change materials can be used for this purpose due to moderate phase change temperature, great thermal capacity, and great latent melting energy. The…
Igneous intrusions in sedimentary basins can influence basin-scale fluid flow and petroleum systems in various ways. They may act as barriers, preferential pathways or even reservoirs for fluids. The fracture networks of intrusions usually represent…
Renewable and carbon free energy relates to the sustainable development of human beings while hydrogen production by renewables and hydrogen underground storage ensure the stable and economic renewable energy supply. A hybrid energy system combining…
Hydrocarbon gas flooding/Huff-n-Puff (HNP) can improve the oil recovery in the unconventional reservoirs. Here, the mechanisms accounting for fluid flow in the low-permeability and ultra-low permeability reservoirs were experimentally and…
Frac-packing is an attractive technique to stimulate production for gas hydrate reservoirs with the additional benefit of solving the problematic sand production problems. So far, there have been no documented mathematical models to predict the…
In the production process of deep-water wells, when the high-temperature formation fluid flows to the wellhead, it may transfer heat to the formation through the wellbore as the result of temperature difference. This can destroy the original…
In situ fractionation in shales means differential movement of the light versus heavy components of the crude oil in the shale formation. This can be due to multiple phenomenon like molecular sieving, varying diffusion coefficients for different…
This paper successfully applied the geoengineering workflow for integrated well-test analysis to characterize fluid flow in a newly discovered fractured reservoir in the Barents Sea. A reservoir model containing fractures and matrix was built and…
The good outcrops exposed along the California orogenic belt as well as successful exploration & development provide examples for the study of sandstone injections (injectites). Sandstone injections are widely developed in a variety of sedimentary…
Different from other gas drive processes, phase behavior performs more significant roles in natural gas drive process. The main reason is that more severe mass transfer effect and similar phase solubility effect have been caused by multicomponent…
Global experience in cold Gas Oil Gravity Drainage (cGOGD) recovery with crestal gas injection of infield produced gas is very limited, but is a proven economic recovery method for fractured carbonate reservoirs in North Oman. Despite decades of…
Igneous intrusions in sedimentary basins can influence basin-scale fluid flow and petroleum systems in various ways. They may act as barriers, preferential pathways or even reservoirs for fluids. The fracture networks of intrusions usually represent…