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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:

Basbug, Basar

Title:

ANALYSIS OF SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION IN FRACTURED, HETEROGENEOUS SANDSTONE

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

CT scan
fractured sandstone
spontaneous imbibition
automated history matching
optimization

File:

Download B.Basbug_dissertation_2009.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Lee, Chung-Hao

Title:

PARAMETRIC STUDY OF FACTORS AFFECTING CAPILLARY IMBIBITION IN FRACTURED POROUS MEDIA

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

Imbibition
Computed Tomography
Fractures
Capillarity

File:

Download dissertation0208.pdf

Committee Members:

Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Kamini Singha, Committee 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:

Ojeifo, Eghonghon

Title:

Feasibility Study through Numerical Simulation of Waterflooding and Gas Injection for a Carbonate Oil Field

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

simulation
waterflood
gas injection

File:

Download thesis_April2015a_Update.pdf

Committee Members:

Yilin Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Fernandez Luengo, Juan Emilio

Title:

NUMERICAL STUDY OF CO-CURRENT WATER-DRY GAS FLOW IN GAS GATHERING SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

NUMERICAL
GAS
GATHERING SYSTEMS

File:

Download FernandezLuengo_PhDThesis_May2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Luis Ayala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
R Larry Grayson, Committee Member
Mirna Urquidi Macdonald, Committee Member

Author:

SRINIVASAN, KARTHIK

Title:

Development and Testing of an Expert System for Coalbed Methane Reservoirs using Artificial Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

Expert Systems
Coalbed Methane Reservoirs
Artificial Intelligence in Reservoir Engineering
Artificial Neural Networks

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Srinivasan.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Luis Ayala, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Thararoop, Prob

Title:

Development of a Multi-mechanistic, Dual-porosity, Dual-permeability Numerical Flow Model for Coalbed Methane Reservoirs accounting for Coal Shrinkage and Swelling Effects

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coalbed Methane Reservoir Simulation
Coal Shrinkage and Swelling Effects

File:

Download Thesis_Prob_Thararoop_Final_new.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Turgay Ertekin / Dr Zuleima Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert W Watson, Committee Member
Dr Luis Ayala, Committee Member
Ljubisa R Radovic, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

Author:

Silpngarmlert, Suntichai

Title:

Numerical Modeling of Gas Recovery from Methane Hydrate Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

reservoir simulation
production characteristics
methane hydrate
Numerical model
production strategy

File:

Download Silpngarmlert_Suntichai__Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Michael Adebola Adewumi, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Petchsingto, Tawatchai

Title:

NUMERICAL STUDY OF FRACTURE APERTURE CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR IMPACT ON SINGLE-PHASE FLOW AND CAPILLARY-DOMINATED DISPLACEMENT

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

Young-Laplace equation
aperture distribution
geostatistical parameter
fractured rock
invasion percolation theory

File:

Download TPetchsingto.pdf

Committee Members:

Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Abraham S Grader, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Maira Lopez De Murphy, Committee Member

Author:

Abass, Yunusa Adewale

Title:

DETERMINATION OF CRICONDENTHERM, CRICONDENBAR AND CRITICAL POINTS USING ANN

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

CRICONDENTHERM and CRITICAL POINTS
CRICONDENBAR

File:

Download Abass_1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis F Ayala H, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis F Ayala H, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Enyioha, Chukwuka

Title:

An Investigation of the Efficacy of Advanced Well Structures in Unconventional Multi-phase Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

Unconventional
advanced well structures
artificial intelligence
production prediction
field development
history matching

File:

Download DISSERTATION.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, 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:

Moreno, Juan Carlos

Title:

Workflow to Enable Effective Uncertaimty Propagation and Decreasing Bias on Predictive Models Used For Field Development Decisions

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Uncertainty
field development
predictive models
risk on field development
history match
dynamic conditioning
ensemble

File:

Download Moreno_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Outside 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