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Author:

Mohammad Nejad Gharehlo, Amir

Title:

Development of Artificial Expert Reservoir Characterization Tools for Unconventional Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

neural networks
ann
Reservoir Characterization
well logs
seismic
payzone identification
payzone
net pay
Wolfcamp

File:

Download _thesis_Amir_Nejad2.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis Ayala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Antonio Nieto, Committee Member
Mirna Urquidi Macdonald, Special Member

Author:

Radespiel, Eduardo

Title:

A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL DESCRIBING TEMPERATURE BEHAVIOR IN HORIZONTAL WELLS: INVESTIGATION OF POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF USING A DOWNHOLE DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

wellbore temperature
flux vector splitting
wellbore-reservoir coupling
black-oil
reservoir simulation
non-isothermal
horizontal well

File:

Download 2010_PhD_Radespiel.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin / Luis Ayala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis Ayala, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Ronaldo Vicente, Committee Member

Author:

Aslan, Erhan

Title:

Development and Testing of an Advanced Coalbed Methane Numerical Reservoir Simulator

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coalbed methane
local grid refinement
coalbed methane simulator
shrinkage and swelling
parallel processing

File:

Download Erhan_Aslan_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

Author:

Alexis, Dennis Arun

Title:

Evaluation of Fluid Transport Properties of Coal Bed Methane Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coal bed methane
permeability
relative permeability
effective stress

File:

Download Dissertation_Alexis_2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yiming

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF TIGHT GAS RESERVOIRS WITH STIMULATED RESERVOIR VOLUME: AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

SRV
ANN
Characterization
Tight gas reservoir
Stimulated reservoir volume
artificial intelligence network

File:

Download Zhang_Yiming_Master_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay Srinivasan, Program Head/Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member

Author:

Purswani, Prakash

Title:

Relative Permeability Equation-of-State: The Role of Phase Connectivity, Wettability, and Capillary Number

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Relative permeability
Multiphase transport
Two-phase flow
Porous medium
Wettability
Capillary trapping
Equation-of-state
Pore structure
Pore-network modeling
Phase connectivity
Euler characteristic
Capillary number
Capillary pressure
Fluid-fluid interfacial area
Hysteresis

File:

Download Purswani_PhD_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Amin Mehrabian, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Special Member
Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Outside Member
Russell Taylor Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair