2011
Dissertations
- Kaveh Ahmadi Rahmatabadi, Advances in Calculation of Minimum Miscibility Pressure
- Serdar Bender, Co-Optimization of CO₂ Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery and Co-Optimization of CO₂ Sequestration and Methane Recovery in Geopressured Aquifers
- Hassan Dehghanpour, Measurement and Modeling of Three-Phase Oil Relative Permeability
- Mehdi Haghshenas, Modeling and Remediation of Reservoir Souring
- Zoya Heidari, Estimation of Static and Dynamic Petrophysical Properties from Well Logs in Multi-layer Formations
- Alireza Mollaei, Forecasting of Isothermal Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and Waterflood Processes
- Yao Peng, Study of Methane Hydrate Formation and Distribution in Arctic Regions: from Pore Scale to Field Scale
- Rohollah Abdollah Pour, Development and Application of a 3D Equation-of-State Compositional Fluid-Flow Simulator in Cylindrical Coordinates for Near-Wellbore Phenomena
- Nicolas Patrick Roussel, Stress Reorientation in Low Permeability Reservoirs
- SeungYup Ryoo Detection of Magneto-Activated Water/Oil Interfaces Containing Nanoparticles
- Kefei Wang, Upscaling and Parallel Reservoir Simulation
Masters Theses
- Karn Agarwal, Modeling Fracture Propagation in Poorly Consolidated Sands
- Abdulaziz Salem Al-Qasim, Simulation of Asphaltene Deposition During CO2 Flooding
- Ziad Alabdullatif, Analysis of Downhole Drilling Vibrations: Case Studies of Manifa and Karan Fields in Saudi Arabia
- Cagdas Arlanoglu, Casing Drilling and Modeling of Smear Effect
- Naveed Arsalan, Surface Energy Characterization of Reservoir Rocks
- Serdar Bender, Co-optimization of CO2 Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery and Co-optimization of CO2 Sequestration and Methane Recovery in Geopressured Aquifers
- Abdulwahab Abdullatif Bukhari, Optimization of Production Allocation under Price Uncertainty: Relating Price Model Assumptions to Decisions
- Fei Cao, A New Method of Data Quality Control in Production Data Using the Capacitance-Resistance Model
- Peila Chen, Surfactant-Enhanced Spontaneous Imbibition Process in Highly Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs
- Chichi Ola Christine Stand-Alone-Screen Candidate Selection Methodology
- Aaron Clark, Decline Curve Analysis in Unconventional Resource Plays Using Logistic Growth Models
- Robert Matthew Dean, Selection and Evaluation of Surfactants for Field Pilots
- David Ryan Espinosa, Nanoparticle-Stabilized Supercritical CO2 Foams for Potential Mobility Control Applications
- Joseph Fu, A study of low salinity waterflooding in 1D and 2D
- Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Understanding the Plume Dynamics and Risk Associated with CO2 Injection in Deep Saline Aquifers
- Angelica Maria Hernandez, Observations of Buoyant Plumes in Countercurrent Displacement
- Jongsoo Hwang, Gas Injection Techniques for Condensate Recovery and Remediation of Liquid Banking in Gas-Condensate Reservoirs
- Lokendra Jain, Factors Determining Rapid and Efficient Geologic Storage of CO2
- Kanay Jerath, Reconciliation of Two-Dimensional NMR Measurements with the Process of Mud-Filtrate Invasion: Synthetic and Field Examples
- Berkay Kocababuc, Finite Element Analysis of Wellbore Strengthening
- John Littlepage, Use of Well Testing and Multiple Point Statistics in Analyzing Deep Water Channel Turbidite Reservoirs
- Oscar Gonzalez Llama, Mobility Control of Chemical EOR Fluids Using Foam in Highly Fractured Reservoirs
- Ripudaman Manchanda, Mechanical, Failure, and Flow Properties of Sands: Micro-Mechanical Models
- Philippe Matthieu Marouby Estimation of Elastic Properties of Hydrocarbon-Bearing Shale by Combining Effective-Medium Calculations, Conventional Well Logs, and Dispersion Processing of Sonic Waveforms
- Corey Alan McCulley, Development of a Chemical Treatment for Condensate Blocking in Tight Gas Sandstone
- Amroo Essam Mukhliss, Simulation of Inorganic Scales Using UTCHEM Reservoir Simulator
- Andrew Christopher Popielski, Rock Classification from Conventional Well Logs in Hydrocarbon-Bearing Shale
- Vladimir M. Rabinovich, Pore Pressure and Fracture Pressure Prediction of Deepwater Subsalt Environment Wells in Gulf of Mexico
- Divya Ramaswamy, Effect of Surfactants on Methane Hydrate Formation and Dissociation
- Matthew Ryan Roberts, Shear-Induced Emulsions Stabilized with Surface-Modified Silica Nanoparticles
- Gaurav Sharma, Wettability Alteration in High Temperature and High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs
- Xiaoyan Shi, Permeability Estimation of Damaged Formations Near Wellbore
- Sriram Solairaj, New Method of Predicting Optimum Surfactant Structure for EOR
- Benjamin Spisak, Using Nanoparticle Stabilized Foam to Achieve Wellbore Stability in Shales
- Dustin Luke Walker, Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Increasing the Temperature on ASP Flooding
- Wenli Wang, Reservoir Characterization Using a Capacitance Resistance Model in Conjunction with Geomechanical Surface Subsidence Models
- Himanshu Yadav, Hydraulic Fracturing in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs and the Impact of Geomechanics on Microseismicity