A5085910683- Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
- Drilling and Well Engineering
- Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
- Oil and Gas Production Techniques
- Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
- Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
- Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
- Software Engineering Research
- Rock Mechanics and Modeling
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Coal Properties and Utilization
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Tunneling and Rock Mechanics
- Software System Performance and Reliability
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
- Open Source Software Innovations
- Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
- Petroleum Processing and Analysis
- Geotechnical and Geomechanical Engineering
- Pulsed Power Technology Applications
- Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Plasma Diagnostics and Applications
- Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
- Fault Detection and Control Systems
- Geophysical Methods and Applications
Regeneron (United States)
2024-2025
University of Houston
2016-2024
University of Groningen
2022-2023
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
2019
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
2018
Texas Tech University
2011-2017
University of South Alabama
2014
Halliburton (United Kingdom)
2002-2011
University of Waterloo
2011
Halliburton (United States)
1994-2000
Summary. This paper discusses the main reservoir engineering and fracture mechanics aspects of fracturing horizontal wells. Specifically, orientation with respect to a wellbore, locating well optimize height, determining optimum number fractures intercepting well, mechanism fluid flow into fractured well. Introduction Interest in drilling completions has increased during last few years. The significant advances monitoring technology have made it possible drill, guide, monitor holes, making...
Abstract The potential for shale formations as a source of gas production has been recognized. However, permeability in nano-Darcy scale represents significant technological challenge to recover trapped hydrocarbon effectively. fracturing wells widely used enhance the economic aspects reservoir. Connecting created hydraulic fractures natural or induced-stress would further improve productivity wells. Fracturing heterogeneous (naturally fractured) formation involves unique processes, rock...
Summary Although unstimulated horizontal wells have1 been successful in naturally fractured reservoirs and with gas- or water-coning problems, fracturing a well may be viable option certain situations. Because of the dependence fracture orientation on direction respect to stress field, possibility must considered before is drilled. The appropriate contingency plans should made anticipate possible low production from an well. It remembered that also dictate how wellbore completed oriented....
Summary Lost circulation has been one of the major challenges that cause much nonproductive rig time each year. With recent advances, curing lost migrated from "plugging a hole" to "borehole strengthening" involves more rock mechanics and engineering. These advances have improved industry's understanding mechanisms can eventually be translated into better solutions higher success rates. This paper provides review current status approaches further on some controversial points. There are two...
Sufficient literature has been published about Pre-Darcy flow in non-petroleum disciplines. Investigators dissent the significance of deviation Darcy’s law at very low fluid velocities. Most their investigations are based on coarse, unconsolidated porous media with an aqueous fluid. However little regarding same for consolidated oil and gas reservoirs. If a significant departure from is observed, then this could have multiple implications on: reservoir limit tests, under prediction reserves,...
Understanding hydraulic fracture propagation events would enable operators to estimate the geometry, understand formation/fracture interactions, and total microseismic cloud. This paper introduces a new method for understanding dynamic using signal processing technique. Detection of event continuous wavelet transform (CWT) is used train deep learning model with predict this cloud every job. The same formation. CWT treatment pressure convolution process that involves application acquired in...
Summary Wellbore strengthening or stress cage implementation has been recognized as an effective means of dealing with lost circulation during drilling operations. One the mechanisms developed for a wellbore to prop induced and existing fractures particulate materials (LCM) effectively increase hoop in near region. However, good understanding this mechanism is necessary order avoid potentially flawed design process which could adversely affect job success field. main issues fracture...
Abstract Developing a predictive reservoir model involves determination or estimation of key components, which can vary through the rock volume. Sophisticated, 3-D grid models usually require significant input data and are built for conventional reservoirs producing in Darcy flow. Production from Barnett shale is not conventional. Shale-rock gas flow complex mixture free adsorbed storage production mechanisms. Free be stored microporosity, natural fractures, thin lamination existing created...
Summary Nanoscale porosity and permeability play important roles in the characterization of shale-gas reservoirs predicting shale-gas-production behavior. The gas adsorption stress effects are two crucial parameters that should be considered shale rocks. Although stress-dependent models have been introduced applied to calculate effective permeability, effect specified as pore volume (PV) occupied by adsorbate is not properly accounted. Generally, results significant reduction nanoscale...
Abstract The aim of this study is to investigate the potential Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) as a mathematical tool for improving understanding hydraulic fracture propagation mechanisms and evaluating interactions between fractures formation. examines one CWT techniques: normalized scalogram technique propagation. However, implementation these techniques requires calibration using observed measured variables, such microseismic events. To overcome obstacle, micro-seismic events, pressure...
Abstract Although unstimulated horizontal wells have been very successful in naturally fractured reservoirs and with gas or water coning problems, there are certain situations where fracturing a well may be viable option. Because of the dependence fracture orientation on direction respect to stress field, possibility must considered before is drilled. The appropriate contingency plans should made anticipate possible low production from an well. It remembered that also dictate how wellbore...
ABSTRACT After a gas well is hydraulically fractured, the relative permeability of reservoir to may be reduced when fracturing fluid invades pay zone. This phenomenon reduces well's potential productivity and more pronounced in low reservoirs. Efficient clean-up for this thus essential As first step toward objective, paper will study effect using numerical simulator gas-water fractured proves that (1) dimensionless fracture conductivity FCD, (2) length,xf/xe, (3) formation capillary...
Abstract Successful fracturing treatment necessitates expensive completion assembly that provides some form of isolation to perform controlled treatments. Currently is performed mechanically which dictates isolated interval very short. This in turn may require the well cased, cemented and perforated. would increase cost significantly. Another option focus energy via use hydrajetting. In this paper we present another approach a high degree control on where transverse fractures will initiate...
Abstract Streamline and streamtube methods have been used in fluid flow computations for many years. Early applications hydrocarbon reservoir simulation were first reported by Fay Pratts the 1950s. Streamline-based has made significant advances last 15 Today's simulators are fully three-dimensional compressible they account gravity as well complex controls. Most recent also allow compositional thermal displacements. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of evolution advancement...
Summary As an unconventional rock, shale contains all the features of coalbed and tight sandstone specified as gas-adsorption capacity, microscale nanoscale porosity, extremely low permeability. The gas-storage mechanism rocks not only is dominated by free gas in macropores natural fractures, but also controlled adsorbed microporous organic matter (kerogen) clay minerals. Furthermore, Darcy's law no longer applicable to describe transport nanopores (Javadpour 2009; Wu et al. 2015)....