Showcase
Pores and Contained Fluids in Conventional Reservoirs
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FE-SEM Image of Angular Pores in a Middle Bakken Core
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(From Anton Padin : PhD Thesis, Petroleum Engineering Dept, CSM, 2016)
Centrifuge Measurement in a Bakken Core
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(From Somayeh Karimi: PhD Thesis, Petroleum Engineering Dept, CSM, 2017)
Geo-cellular Model of a Unconventional DJ Basin Reservoir
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(From Yanrui Ning: PhD Thesis, Petroleum Engineering Dept, CSM, 2017)
Flow and Rock Deformation in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
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(From Erdinc Eker: RCP, CSM, 2016)
Multiphase Rate Transient Analysis
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(From Ilkay Eker: SPE 171657-PA , Petroleum Engineering Dept, CSM, 2016)
Berea Sandstone, 119 md, Brine
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Surfactant-Brine-Oil Phase Behavior
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(From Mehdi Izadi Kamouei: PhD Thesis, Petroleum Engineering Dept, CSM, 2015)
Delhi Field Continuous CO2 EOR
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(From Tingting Chen: RCP, CSM)
Analysis of bakken formation from different sources and scales of measurements
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(From Basak Kurtoglu: PhD Thesis, Petroleum Engineering Dept, CSM, 2013)
An outcrop of a tensleep sandstone and madison dolomite in wyoming’s alcova reservoir
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eight-foot butted sandstone core after micellar flooding
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(Marathon Technology Center, 1976)
single and two-component phase diagrams
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composition grading
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Undersaturated GOC versus Saturated GOC (Danesh, 1998)
multilevel fracture network modeling of naturally fractured reservoirs
Rendering of water phase movement in a dual mesh simulation of a dual porosity system.
Left – Saturation distribution in the bottom layer; Right – Saturation front (iso-surface) with streamlines
From SPE 93053: H. Kazemi, S. Atan, M. Al-Matrook, J. Dreier, E. Ozkan, Colorado School of Mines
a snapshot of pressure and water front movement for an injection well depicting different scales of response
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From Safian Atan: PhD Thesis, Petroleum Engineering Dept, CSM, April 2007
idealization of hydraulic fracture stimulation in a horizontal well to create interconnected dilation fractures
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From SPE 108110: F. Medeiros, SPE, Petrobras, E. Ozkan and H. Kazemi, SPE, Colorado School of Mines
transient productivity index for a gas horizontal well with longitudinal hydraulic fracture and localized natural fractures network
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From SPE 108110: F. Medeiros, SPE, Petrobras, E. Ozkan and H. Kazemi, SPE, Colorado School of Mines
dual-mesh methods to capture the fine-scale heterogeneity effects in displacement processes and multilevel fractured modeling of naturally fractured reservoirs
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Multilevel naturally fractured system, based on Araujo. et al., SPE 91940
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Coarse mesh / fine mesh superposed on fracture matrix network
numerical simulation of steam assisted gravity drainage
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Heated chamber growth at the toe of the horizontal well in ~60 days from onset of steam injection
dual-mesh compositional simulation of reservoir heterogeneity
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3 Phase flow Simulation of a volatile-oil system with gas and water Injectors (50x30x7 Reservoir Grid System)