2014
Dissertations
- Ali Afsharpoor, Pore-Scale Modeling of Viscoelastic Flow and the Effect of Polymer Elasticity on Residual Oil Saturation
- Emad Waleed Al Shalabi, Modeling the Effect of Injecting Low Salinity Water on Oil Recovery from Carbonate Reservoirs
- Sayantan Bhowmik, Particle Tracking Proxies for Prediction of CO2 Plume Migration Within a Model Selection Framework
- Fei Cao, Development of a Two-Phase Flow Coupled Capacitance Resistance Model
- Peila Chen, Enhanced Oil Recovery in Fractured Vuggy Carbonates
- Hamed Darabi, Development of a Non-Isothermal Compositional Reservoir Simulator to Model Asphaltene Precipitation, Flocculation, and Deposition and Remediation
- Amir Frooqnia, Numerical Simulation and Interpretation of Borehole Fluid-Production Measurements
- Reza Ganjdanesh, Integrating Carbon Capture and Storage with Energy Production from Saline Aquifers
- Jongsoo Hwang, Factors Affecting Injection Well Performance and Fracture Growth in Waterflooded Reservoirs
- Lokendra Jain, Global Upscaling of Secondary and Tertiary Displacements
- Xianhui Kong, Petrophysical Modeling and Simulation Study of Geological CO2 Sequestration
- Aboulghasem Kazemi Nia Korrani, Mechanistic Modeling of Low Salinity Water Injection
- Hamid Reza Lashgari, Development of a Four-Phase Thermal-Chemical Reservoir Simulator for Heavy Oil
- Jun Lu, Development of novel surfactants and surfactant methods for chemical enhanced oil recovery
- Yashar Mehmani, Modeling Single-Phase Flow and Solute Transport across Scales
- Edwin Yamid Ortega, Inversion-Based Petrophysical Interpretation of Multi-Detector Logging-While-Drilling Sigma Measurements
- Gurpreet Singh, Coupled Flow and Geomechanics Modeling for Fractured Poroelastic Reservoirs
- Harpreet Singh, Scale-up of Reactive Processes in Heterogeneous Media
- Moslem Taghavifar, Enhanced Heavy Oil Recovery By Hybrid Thermal-Chemical Processes
- Shayan Tavassoli, Investigation of the Effects of Buoyancy and Heterogeneity on the Performance of Surfactant Floods
- Ashwin Venkatraman, Gibbs Free Energy Minimization for Flow in Porous Media
- Kan Wu, Numerical Modeling of Complex Hydraulic Fracture Development in Unconventional Reservoirs
Masters Theses
- Murtadha Jawad Al Tammar, Production Performance Evaluation of Energized Fracturing Fluids in Unconventional Formations
- Almas Aitkulov, Two-dimensional ASP Flood for a Viscous Oil
- Emad Abbad Alabbad, Experimental Investigation of Geomechanical Aspects of Hydraulic Fracturing Unconventional Formations
- Abdulaziz Samir Altubayyeb, A Numerical Study of the Impact of Waterflood Pattern Size on Ultimate Recovery in Undersaturated Oil Reservoirs
- Woravut Apiwatcharoenkul, Uncertainty in Proved Reserves Estimation by Decline Curve Analysis
- Archawin Aroonsri, Nanoparticle-Stabilized Supercritical CO2 Foam for Mobility Control in CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery
- Umut Aybar, Investigation of Analytical Models Incorporating Geomechanical Effects on Production Performance of Hydraulically and Naturally Fractured Unconventional Reservoirs
- Saptaswa Basu, Fracture Diagnostics using Low Frequency Electromagnetic Induction
- Michael Andrew Carey, Water Hammer Fracture Diagnostics
- Kyle Michael Carter, Improved Regulatory Oversight using Real-Time Data Monitoring Technologies in the Wake of Macondo
- Leonard Yujya Chang, New Correlation for Predicting the Best Surfactant and Co-solvent Structures to Evaluate for Chemical EOR
- Ghazal Dashti, A Study of Microemulsion Viscosity with Consideration of Polymer and Co-solvent Additives
- Elton Luiz Diniz Ferreira, Improved Estimation of Pore Connectivity and Permeability in Deepwater Carbonates with the Construction of Multi-Layer Static and Dynamic Petrophysical Models
- Joseph (Yao) Fu, Leak-Off Test (LOT) Models
- Scott Thomas Gabel, Generation, Stability, and Transport of Nanoparticle-Stabilized Oil-in- Water Emulsions in Porous Media
- Jameson Parker Gips, Shale Characterization Using TGA, Py-GC-MS, and NMR
- Krupa Kannan, Predicting and Optimizing the Performance of the Expanding Solvent Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (ES-SAGD) Process Using an Improved Semi-Analytical Proxy Model
- Dhananjay Kumar, Modeling Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage in Heterogeneous Reservoirs Using Different Upscaling Techniques
- Yu Liang, Experimental Study of Convective Dissolution of Carbon Dioxide in Porous Media
- Morteza Elahi Naraghi, Geostatistical Data Integration in Complex Reservoirs
- Kashif Naseem Fracture to Production Workflow Applied to Proppant Permeability Damage Effects in Unconventional Reservoirs
- James William Patterson, Placement and performance of pH-triggered polyacrylic acid in cement fractures
- Ricardo Federico Salas Porras, Compressibility of Nanoparticle Stabilized Foams for Foamed Cement Applications
- Daniel Sánchez Rivera, Reservoir Simulation and Optimization of CO2 Huff-and-Puff Operations in the Bakken Shale
- Eric Clinton Schulz, Conductivity of Proppant Mixtures
- Mahmood Shakiba, Modeling and Simulation of Fluid Flow in Naturally and Hydraulically Fractured Reservoirs Using Embedded Discrete Fracture Model (EDFM)
- Roman J. Shor, Modeling Proppant Flow in Fractures using LIGGGHTS, a Scalable Granular Simulator
- Dong Hee Song, Using Simple Models to Describe Oil Production From Unconventional Reservoirs
- Kyle (Yuhao) Sun Investigation of Buoyant Plumes in a Quasi-2D domain: Characterizing the Influence of Local Capillary Trapping and Heterogeneity on Sequestered CO2 – A Bench Scale Experiment
- Pongpak Taksaudom, Simulation Study of Preformed Particle Gel for Conformance Control
- Jacob Mathew Taylor, Quantifying Thermally Driven Fracture Geometry during CO2 Storage
- William Christopher Van Bramer, Nanoparticle Dispersion Flow for Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Micromodels
- Cameron Artigues Vitter, A Generalized Flow Rate Model for Primary Production and an Analysis of Gravity Drainage through Numerical Simulation
Masters Reports
- Behzad Eftekhari, A Rule Based Model of Creating Complex Networks of Connected Fractures
- Xiangyu Liu, Zonal Isolation Improvement through Enhanced Cement-Shale Bonding
- Rahul Verma, Validation of level set contact angle method for multiphase flow in porous media
- Rodolfo Araujo Victor, Pore Scale Modeling of Rock Transport Properties
- Weiwei Wang, Study of Natural and Hydraulic Fracture Interaction Using Semi- Circular Bending Experiments
