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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Unconventional Resources"”.
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Sustainable Methods for Lithium Recovery from Water and Unconventional Resources
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Downhole Weight on Bit Prediction with Analytical Model and Finite Element Method
… an innovative technology applied for exploiting unconventional resources in North-America and around the world. To acquire better drilling performance, weight on bit (WOB) needs to be accurate and monitored. However, the weight on bit recorded on the surface panel is most often incorrect because …
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Flow mechanisms and numerical simulation of gas production from shale reservoirs
<p>"Shale gas is one kind of the unconventional resources which is becoming an ever increasing component to secure the natural gas supply in U.S. Different from conventional hydrocarbon formations, shale gas reservoirs (SGRs) present numerous challenges to modeling and understanding due to complex …
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Acoustic monitoring of hydraulic stimulation in granites
… this resource and is generally required to make unconventional resources an economically viable resource. Significant challenges for EGS technology include poor connectivity between injection and production wells during stimulation and difficulty predicting fracture growth (Tester, et al. 2006). …
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Nanoscale geochemistry of critical elements; applications for mineral exploration and recovery from secondary sources
… efforts to explore for both conventional and unconventional resources.
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Impact of Hydraulic Fracture Conductivity Modeling on Well Performance and Development in Unconventional Reservoirs
Reservoir simulation of unconventional resources has become increasingly important due to advancing technologies and the growing demand for efficient hydrocarbon recovery. These reservoirs pose distinct challenges related to characterization, multiphase flow behavior, and production forecasting. To …
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Water management in hydraulic fracturing-a planning and decision optimization platform
… have enabled cost-effective production of unconventional resources, particularly shale gas in the U.S. The process of hydraulic fracturing is water intensive, requiring 4-7 million gallons of water per well, to which a range of chemicals must also be added in order to produce an effective …
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Analytical and Semi-Analytical Models for Composite Reservoirs with Complex Well Completions
… production unless they are engineered using unconventional stimulation methods like multi-stage hydraulic fracturing, for instance. As a result, traditional reservoir modeling methods fail, or give misleading results at best, when used to study these hydrocarbon plays. The objective of this …
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Global terrestrial uranium supply and its policy implications : a probabilistic projection of future uranium costs
An accurate outlook on long-term uranium resources is critical in forecasting uranium costresource relationships, and for energy policy planning as regards the development and deployment of nuclear fuel cycle alternatives. In this study, which was part of the MIT Study on the Future of the Nuclear …
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Mechanistic and probabilistic rate-time analysis of unconventional reservoirs
… further understand the underlaying mechanisms of unconventional production. The second, introduces a probability approach that attempts to address the uncertainty in the production forecasts. The first part of this work presents mechanistic modeling of unconventional resources to estimate the …
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Performance Evaluation of ionic Liquids in Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Numerical Simulation
… rise in oil productivity from conventional and unconventional resources in Canada and North America, using enhanced oil recovery technique, the need to understand and characterize these techniques, for the purpose of recovery optimization, has taken a prominent role in resource management. …
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Data Driven Approaches to Model Building: Applications to Energy Industries
… wells drilled for production of oil and gas from unconventional resources, such as shales; and (b) design of robust control-relevant models for oil refineries and chemical plants. Shale gas production from horizontal wells faces potential problems related to gas leakage from the cemented annulus …
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CO2 Minimum Miscibility Pressure and Recovery Mechanisms in Heterogeneous Low Permeability Reservoirs
… and horizon drilling, the production of unconventional oil and gas resources, such as shale gas and tight oil, has grown quickly in 21th century and contributed to the North America oil and gas production. Although the new enhancing oil recover (EOR) technologies and strong demand spike …
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Investigation of post hydraulic fracturing well cleanup physics in the Cana Woodford shale
… has gained popularity in current development of unconventional resources. Flowing back the fracturing fluids is critical to a frac job, and determining well cleanup characteristics using the flowback data can help improve frac design. It has become increasingly important as a result of the unique …
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Simultaneous Multiple Plane to Plane Waterflooding in Fractured Tight Reservoirs
… but efforts to apply waterflooding to unconventional tight oil formations have not met much success. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of a novel 3-well pattern using horizontal wells (one injector and two producers, or one producer and two injectors) with …
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Geomechanics and elastic anisotropy of the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin
… They are significant sources of hydrocarbon unconventional resources in this basin. This dissertation aims to fulfill an investigation of anisotropy in this rock type in several different facets through exploiting of field data. I seek to generate key information for better interplay of field …
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Fracture Stimulation by Nano-assisted Foam-based Fluids in High-Temperature Reservoirs
… extract and enhance oil and gas production from unconventional resources with very low permeability. In this stimulation technique, fracturing fluid is injected at very high pressure into the underground to initiate and propagate fractures at the target reservoir interval. Proppants, such as …
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Effect of thermal maturity on nanomechanical properties and porosity in organic rich shales (a Bakken shale case study)
Unconventional resources (Shale Plays) have been the game changer of energy supply worldwide. The ever improving technologies and expanding of knowledge related to unconventional hydrocarbon accumulations has generated an enormous opportunity for countries with these resources towards energy …
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Three-dimensional multi-scale hydraulic fracturing simulation in heterogeneous material using Dual Lattice Model
… engineering applications such as extraction of unconventional resources, enhanced geothermal energy and carbon capture and storage. Current simulators are highly simplified because of the assumption of homogeneous reservoir. Unconventional reservoirs are heterogeneous owing to the presence of …
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Performance Evaluation of Wells With Single and Multiple Fractures in Tight Formations
… leads to the exploration and development of unconventional resources economically feasible. Due to complex fracture network and geology nature, evaluating performance of fluids flow in such a hydraulic fracture system is really a challenge. Numerical modeling and simulation usually requires …
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