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Author:

Al Balushi, Faras

Title:

Using Digital Rock Analysis to Estimate Flow Properties of Stress-Sensitive Rocks

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Stress-dependent permeability
Absolute permeability
Digital rock analysis
Finite Element Analysis
Lattice Boltzmann Methods

File:

Download Faras_Al_Balushi_s_M.S._Thesis-Final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Arash Dahi Taleghani, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Xiao, Dacheng

Title:

Understanding controls of hydrologic and geochemical processes using model-data integration at the watershed scale

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Stream generation
Chemical weathering
Critical measurement
Watershed

File:

Download PhDdissertation_DachengXiao_revision_20201201.pdf

Committee Members:

Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Susan Louise Brantley, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chandna, Akshat

Title:

Modeling Natural Fracture Networks Using Improved Geostatistical and Geomechanical Inferences

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Fracture Characterization
Multiple Point Statistics
Geostatistics
Geomechanics
Machine Learning
Stochastic Simulation
Modeling Natural Fracture Networks
Teapot Dome

File:

Download Dissertation_Document_AkshatChandna.pdf

Committee Members:

Sanjay Srinivasan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yu, Jiayi

Title:

Conductivity Evolution in Propped Fractures During Reservoir Drawdown

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Proppant; Propped fracture conductivity; Proppant embedment; Proppant crushing

File:

Download Jiayi_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Fengyuan

Title:

flowback rate transient analysis of multi-fractured horizontal wells in tight and ultratight reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

flowback analysis
rate transient analysis
multiphase flow
tight and ultratight reservoir
fracture characterization

File:

Download Dissertation_8.0.pdf

Committee Members:

Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair