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Author:

Khorsandi Kouhanestant, Saeid

Title:

Mathematics of multiphase multiphysics transport in porous media

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Enhanced oil recovery
MMP
Riemann problem
Hyperbolic equations
Method of Characteristics

File:

Download KhorsandiDissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell Taylor Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Taylor Johns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Wen Shen, Committee Member
Alberto Bressan, 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:

Hamam, Hassan

Title:

CONTINUOUS CO2 INJECTION DESIGN IN NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS USING NEURAL NETWORK BASED PROXY MODELS

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

ANN
Artificial Neural Networks
CO2 Injection
CO2
Continuous CO2 Injection
Carbon Dioxide injection
CO2 EOR
ANN CO2
CO2 Artificial Neural Networks

File:

Download Hamam_PhD_Thesis_v13_FINAL_V4.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lai, I-AN

Title:

Engergy and Mineral Engineering

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial Neural Netwrok
Waterflooding

File:

Download Thesis_IAN_LAI.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Eugene Morgan, Committee Member

Author:

Chang, Oliver Chih-young

Title:

INTEGRATED 3-DIMENSIONAL MODELING OF PROPPANT TRANSPORT THROUGH HYDRAULIC FRACTURE NETWORK IN SHALE GAS RESERVOIR

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

proppant transport
hydraulic fracturing
shale gas
fracture network
unconventional reservoir

File:

Download Oliver_PhD_Dissertation_INTEGRATED_3-DIMENSIONAL_MODELING_OF_PROPPANT_TRANSPORT_THROUGH_HYDRAULIC_FRACTURE_NETWORK_IN_SHALE_GAS_RESERVOIR.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yilin Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yilin Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Virendra Puri, Outside Member

Author:

Siripatrachai, Nithiwat

Title:

Development of a Multi-mechanistic Triple-porosity, Triple-permeability Compositional Model for Unconventional Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Reservoir Simulation
Unconventional Reservoir
Compositional Simulation
Capillary Pressure
Phase Behavior
Shale
Multicontinuum
Discrete Fracture Model
Numerical Simulation
Tight Rock
Hydraulic Fracture
Naturally Fractured Reservoir

File:

Download Siripatrachai_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Taylor Johns, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
James Terry Engelder, Outside Member

Author:

Da, Lina

Title:

SCREENING AND DESIGN CRITERIA FOR DIFFERENT SLANTED WELLS

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial Neural Network

File:

Download Lina_Da_Master_Thesis.FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
123, Committee Member
123, Committee Member

Author:

Zamponi, Renzo Eugenio

Title:

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DECLINE CURVE ANALYSIS METHODS USING A LAB-SCALE GAS RESERVOIR

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Natural Gas Engineering
Reserves Estimation
Reservoir Engineering
Decline Curve Analysis
Original Gas in Place
OGIP
Lab-scale Reservoir

File:

Download Renzo_Zamponi_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Alquisom, Mohammed Mattoq

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED EXPERT SYSTEM TO DETERMINE THE LOCATION OF HORIZONTAL WELL IN A THREE-PHASE RESERVOIR WITH A SIMULTANEOUS GAS CAP AND BOTTOM WATER DRIVE

Graduate Program:

Earth Sciences

Keywords:

Neural Network
ANN
Simulator
Reservoir
Cresting
Horizontal well
Gas Cap
Water Drive
Ertekin
Three-Phase

File:

Download Thesis-3-4-8_final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Member
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member

Author:

Bansal, Yogesh

Title:

FORECASTING THE PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE OF WELLS LOCATED IN TIGHT OIL PLAYS USING ARTIFICIAL EXPERT SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

forecasting production
Tight oil
infill drilling
ANN
optimized completion design

File:

Download Dissertation_YogeshBansal_December2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis F. Ayala, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, 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:

Ersahin, Ahmet

Title:

AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH FOR EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF CYCLIC STEAM INJECTION IN NATURALLY FRACTURED HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial Neural Network
cyclic steam injection
cyclic steam stimulation
ann
csi
css
thermal eor

File:

Download Ahmet_Ersahin_Thesis_11.18.16.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member

Author:

Shang, Bin

Title:

Design of Brine Disposal Wells in Depleted Gas Reservoirs via Artificial Intelligence Protocols

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

ANN
Brine Disposal
Depleted Gas Reservoirs

File:

Download Bin_Shang_Masters_Thesis_July_26_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member

Author:

Singh, Madhu

Title:

Density-based rescaled exponential model for gas-condensate reservoirs during boundary-dominated flow

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

density-based
rescaled exponential
gas-condensate
boundary dominated flow
variable bottomhole pressure
multiphase flow
analytical model

File:

Download MadhuSingh_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
John Yilin Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Yue, Wenting

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF A PRODUCTION DATA ANALYSIS MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION IN A PRODUCING OIL RESERVOIR

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

production data analysis
Ensemble Kalman Filter
Whole-field evaluation
Reservoir simulation
history matching

File:

Download Wenting_Ph.D._Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yilin Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yilin Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Steven Greybush, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Zhenzihao

Title:

Predicting Petrophysical Properties From Rate-Transient Data: An Artificial Intelligence Application

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Relative Permeability
Capillary Pressure
Permeability
Artificial Neural Network
Rate-Transient Data
Petrophysical Properties

File:

Download Dissertation_ZhenzihaoZhang_20170713.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, Outside Member

Author:

Zhou, Qiumei

Title:

ANALYSIS OF NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION AND FRACTURE FLUIDS FLOWBACK IN MARCELLUS SHALE USING DATA MINING APPROACHES

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Marcellus Shale
Data Mining
Fracture Flowback

File:

Download PS_Thesis_template_version_19_Qiumei_Zhou.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yilin Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yilin Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Andrew Kleit, Committee Member
Terry Engelder, Outside Member
Yitian Xiao, Special Member

Author:

Yavuz, Mehmet Zulkuf

Title:

AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION FOR EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF CYCLIC CO2 INJECTION IN NATURALLY FRACTURED BLACK-OIL RESERVOIRS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

CYCLIC CO2 INJECTION
NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK (ANN)

File:

Download Mehmet_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Will, Ryan David

Title:

A GENERAL COMPOSITIONAL RESCALED-EXPONENTIAL MODEL FOR MULTI-PHASE, BOUNDARY-DOMINATED PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Rate transient analysis
gas condensate
volatile oil
analytical mode
compositional reservoir modeling
rescaled-exponential
boundary-dominated performance analysis

File:

Download Ryan_Will_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis F Ayala H, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Yun

Title:

MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENT FOR FLOWBACK RATE TRANSIENT ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Flowback Analysis
Rate Transient Analysis (RTA)
Production Data Analysis (PDA)
Fracture Characterization
Two-phase Flowback Model
Single-phase Flowback Model
Shale Gas
Tight Sand Gas

File:

Download Yun_YangMaster_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis F Ayala H, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member