There are abundant deep shale gas resources and their development prospect is promising. Reasonable horizontal well spacing can maximize single well productivity while producing inter-well reserves sufficiently. When field test and numerical…
This paper presents the analytics of physics-driven big data in reservoir hydrodynamic simulation and parameter optimization for EOR projects in Daqing oilfield. An application model proposed in this study enables reservoir engineers to dynamically…
Managing oil production from reservoirs to maximize the future economic return of the asset is an important issue in petroleum engineering. One of the most important problems is the prediction of water flooding performance. Traditional strategies…
There are abundant deep shale gas resources and their development prospect is promising. Reasonable horizontal well spacing can maximize single well productivity while producing inter-well reserves sufficiently. When field test and numerical…
This paper presents the analytics of physics-driven big data in reservoir hydrodynamic simulation and parameter optimization for EOR projects in Daqing oilfield. An application model proposed in this study enables reservoir engineers to dynamically…
Managing oil production from reservoirs to maximize the future economic return of the asset is an important issue in petroleum engineering. One of the most important problems is the prediction of water flooding performance. Traditional strategies…
There are abundant deep shale gas resources and their development prospect is promising. Reasonable horizontal well spacing can maximize single well productivity while producing inter-well reserves sufficiently. When field test and numerical…
This paper presents the analytics of physics-driven big data in reservoir hydrodynamic simulation and parameter optimization for EOR projects in Daqing oilfield. An application model proposed in this study enables reservoir engineers to dynamically…
It is common to have measured depth exceeding 20,000 ft for unconventional oil and gas wells. To ensure the pressure pulse can be detected on the surface, many MWD tools have been designed to generate mud pressure pulse with very large amplitude.…
Managing oil production from reservoirs to maximize the future economic return of the asset is an important issue in petroleum engineering. One of the most important problems is the prediction of water flooding performance. Traditional strategies…
It is common to have measured depth exceeding 20,000 ft for unconventional oil and gas wells. To ensure the pressure pulse can be detected on the surface, many MWD tools have been designed to generate mud pressure pulse with very large amplitude.…
A marine oil spill is an environmental pollution incident that generally has the attributes of a high speed, widespread, and long duration. It seriously threatens the marine ecological environment and related industries. It is vital to determine the…
Although leak incidents continue, a pipeline remains the most reliable mode of transportation within the oil and gas industry. It becomes even more important today because the projection for new pipelines is expected to increase by 1 billion barrels…
A marine oil spill is an environmental pollution incident that generally has the attributes of a high speed, widespread, and long duration. It seriously threatens the marine ecological environment and related industries. It is vital to determine the…
It is common to have measured depth exceeding 20,000 ft for unconventional oil and gas wells. To ensure the pressure pulse can be detected on the surface, many MWD tools have been designed to generate mud pressure pulse with very large amplitude.…
There are abundant deep shale gas resources and their development prospect is promising. Reasonable horizontal well spacing can maximize single well productivity while producing inter-well reserves sufficiently. When field test and numerical…
This paper presents the analytics of physics-driven big data in reservoir hydrodynamic simulation and parameter optimization for EOR projects in Daqing oilfield. An application model proposed in this study enables reservoir engineers to dynamically…
Managing oil production from reservoirs to maximize the future economic return of the asset is an important issue in petroleum engineering. One of the most important problems is the prediction of water flooding performance. Traditional strategies…
There are abundant deep shale gas resources and their development prospect is promising. Reasonable horizontal well spacing can maximize single well productivity while producing inter-well reserves sufficiently. When field test and numerical…
One of the most important tools for studying fluid flow behavior in oil and gas reservoirs is reservoir simulation. It is constructed based on a comprehensive geological information. A comprehensive numerical reservoir model has tens of millions of…
In the oil and gas industry, there is a growing demand for application of big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to optimize operations and reduce cost. In this study, we work on the productivity prediction, which is an…
A novel sensor-based approach for leak detection of oil pipeline is proposed. The approach uses piezoelectric sensor in dynamic pressure transducer. The key to the detection algorithm is the use of the characteristic of piezoelectric sensor: when…
For the transportation pipeline with the diameter 1.219 m and the internal pressure 3-12 MPa, the leakage and diffusion of the natural gas of the pipeline in the soil was studied by numerical simulation. First, the finite model containing both…
The subsurface contamination by petroleum hydrocarbons (PHC) from leaking underground storage tanks, pipelines and refilling stations is one of the serious issues directly affecting the quality of groundwater. Application of advanced oxidation…
The rapid advancements in the computational abilities of numerical simulations have attracted researchers to work on the area of reactive transport in porous media to improve the hydrocarbon production processes from mature reservoirs. In the…
In order to calculate the wax deposition rate of crude oil pipelines and discuss its regularity, a pseudo-three-dimensional wax deposition numerical model was established based on computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer theory. The model…
Heavy crude oil is a valuable energy resource that is very abundant but also very viscous which complicates exploitation of these resources. One efficient and environmentally friendly heavy oil recovery technique uses exothermic oxidation reactions…
Multiphase flow is an important problem in crude oil transportation because crude oil transportation involves the flow of crude oil and water in pipelines. Transportation of crude oil involves safety, efficiency and cost. Fluent software was used for…
The demand for lithium (Li) has greatly escalated during the past decade and is predicted to increase continuously with the market growth of the electrified transportation and renewable energy, given that Li-ion batteries are the major energy storage…
The plunger pump which once pumped water was tried to transport crude oil. Because of the big crude oil's dynamic viscosity, the plunger pump's self-absorption characteristic decreased, and the plunger pump's flow rate and efficiency reduced, the…
Small and medium-sized independent liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers are suitable for the short and medium transport of Arctic natural gas because of their shallow draught and flexible operation. A coupling analysis of the numerical simulation is…
In this paper, a numerical model considering phase change and external heat leakage is established to study the thermodynamic and hydrodynamic of a type C LNG tank under sinusoidal sloshing excitation. The volume of fluid (VOF) method, coupled with…
By conducting relative permeability experiments of multi-cycle gas-water displacement and imbibition on natural cores, we discuss relative permeability hysteresis effect in underground gas storage during multi-cycle injection and production. A…
A dual-media thermal energy storage system consisting of ceramic pebbles as a storage material and high-temperature heat transfer fluid (HTF) is analyzed for 1 MWe National Solar Thermal Power Plant. A numerical model has been formulated to study the…
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is a fossil fuel mixture, widely used in domestic and industrial burners for several applications. Non-premixed flames are commonly preferred in these burners owing to their stability and controllability. However, based…
The gravity effects of the possible reservoir scenarios after primary exploitation are tested in this work. Starting from the exploitable volume after primary hydrocarbon production of the very small and deep Volve field in the North Sea, we model…
Abstract: Mineral trapping (MT)is the most secure method of sequestering carbon for geologically significant periods of time. The processes behind MT fundamentally occur at the pore scale, therefore understanding which factors control MT at this…
In recent years, the greenhouse gas control has been a hot issue. A solution of injecting supercritical CO2 (scCO2) in Longmaxi shale gas formation (in Southwest China) is proposed in this study. To evaluate the feasibility of this method that…
Carbon dioxide (CO2) geological storage (CGS) is an effective way for reducing greenhouse emissions. The injection of CO2 into the deep formation changes the pore pressure and effective stresses in the reservoir, thus leading to changes in…
The solid-liquid phase change energy storage system promoted the efficient and sustainable utilization of dispersive and intermittent renewable energy. Low energy storage rate and unbalanced thermophysical characteristics existed in the vertical…
to balance the intermittent of renewable power, large-scale energy storage in underground salt caverns can be utilized. And the construction and safety evaluations for these caverns become necessary. Aimed at the bedded salt rocks for energy storage,…
Compressed air energy storage (CAES) stores energy as compressed air in underground formations, typically salt dome caverns. When electricity demand grows, the compressed air is released through a turbine to produce electricity. CAES in the US is…
This research evaluates the CO2 storage capacity of the Parinas Formation belonging to the Talara basin in Peru through analytical modeling based on mass balance equations and numerical modeling using IMEX CMG. Parinas Formation has several depleted…
Making an accurate estimate of the CO2 storage capacity before the commencement of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project is crucial to the project design and feasibility investigation. We present herein a numerical modelling study on the CO2…
The potential of water alternating gas (WAG) flooding in CO2 storage was exploited using experimental and numerical simulation methods in this study. Through comparing experiments results of WAG flooding and continuous CO2 flooding, WAG flooding…
The existence of back pressure will cause shock wave in the Laval nozzle of the supersonic separator, which will lead to the condensed droplets to evaporate and reduce the separation efficiency of the separator. It is of great significance to…
The demand for lithium (Li) has greatly escalated during the past decade and is predicted to increase continuously with the market growth of the electrified transportation and renewable energy, given that Li-ion batteries are the major energy storage…
A solution to increase the use of natural gas in U.S. is to convert existing diesel engines to natural-gas spark-ignition operation through the addition of a gas injector in the intake manifold and of a spark plug in place of the diesel injector.…
Underground natural gas storage reservoir is generally used to stabilize the natural gas supply to meet the high and low peak of gas consumption. In addition, in the case of depleted gas reservoirs, the leftover native gas or cheap inert gas being as…
High-Pressure Air Injection (HPAI) as an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method has a high potential and has already been effectively applied for carbonate reservoirs development. The target object of the current research is a Kirsanovskoe oil field…