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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:

Parada Minakowski, Claudia Helena

Title:

AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED TOOL-BOX FOR SCREENING AND DESIGNING IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY METHODS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

IOR
reservoir simulation
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK
IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY
petroleum engineering

File:

Download Parada_PhD_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert W Watson, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Mirna Urquidi Macdonald, Committee Member

Author:

León, Daniel Eduardo

Title:

A GENERALIZED 2-D HYPERBOLIC SOLVER WITH APPLICATION TO ORIFICE METERING

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
Essentially Non-Oscillatory Scheme
Large Eddy Simulation
Conservation Laws
Compressible Turbulent Flow
Natural Gas
Orifice-Meter
Orifice-Plate
Orifice Metering

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Daniel_Leon_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Adebola Adewumi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Robert W Watson, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member

Author:

Alp, Doruk

Title:

Numerical Modeling of Natural Gas Two-Phase Flow Split at Branching T-Junctions with Closed-Loop Network Applications

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

uneven phase separation
Branching
tee
T-Junction
Double Stream Model
Flow split
Staggered Grid
Finite Volume Method
Two-Phase Flow
Steady-State

File:

Download Alp_2009.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Luis Ayala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert W Watson, Committee Member
Dr Mirna Urquidi Macdonald, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member

Author:

Artun, Fazil Emre

Title:

Optimized Design of Cyclic Pressure Pulsing in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Using Neural-Network Based Proxy Models

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

cyclic pressure pulsing
improved oil recovery
optimization
screening
CO2
N2
neural networks
genetic algorithms
artificial intelligence

File:

Download Artun.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert W Watson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Mirna Urquidi Macdonald, Committee Member
Majid Al Wadhahi, Committee Member

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:

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:

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:

Alabbad, Mohammed Ali

Title:

Well Testing Using Artificial Expert Systems: applications And Limitations

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

well testing
neural networks
pressure transient
predict

File:

Download Mohammed_AlAbbad_proposal_v4.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
R Larry Grayson, Special 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