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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:

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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:

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:

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:

Putcha, Venkataramana B

Title:

INTEGRATION OF NUMERICAL AND MACHINE LEARNING PROTOCOLS FOR COUPLED RESERVOIR-WELLBORE MODELS: A STUDY FOR GAS LIFT OPTIMIZATION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

numerical simulation
machine learning
gas lift
neural networks
petroleum
production
optimization

File:

Download Venkat_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Jian

Title:

Development of Automated Neuro-Simulation Protocols for Pressure and Rate Transient Analysis Applications

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Neuro-Simulation
Machine Learning
Neural Network
Numerical Reservoir Simulation
Pressure Transient Analysis
Rate Transient Analysis

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Outside Member

Author:

Sun, Qian

Title:

The Development of an Artificial-Neural-Network-Based Toolbox for Screening and Optimization of Enhanced Oil Recovery Projects

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial neural network
Enhanced oil recovery
Proxy models
Particle swarm optimization
Graphical user interface
Artificial neural network
Enhanced oil recovery
Proxy models
Particle swarm optimization
Graphical user interface

File:

Download SunQian_Dissertation_ETD.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis F. Ayala H., Committee Member
Eugene Morgan, Committee Member
C. Lee Giles, Outside Member

Author:

Rana, Sachin

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ASSISTED HISTORY MATCHING AND UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION TOOL BASED ON GAUSSIAN PROCESSES PROXY MODELS AND VARIOGRAM BASED SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Assisted History Matching
Gaussian Processes
Sensitivity Analysis
Uncertainty Quantification
Bayesian Optimization

File:

Download Sachin_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Jing Yang, Outside Member

Author:

Enab, Khaled Ahmed

Title:

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED DESIGN PROTOCOL FOR WAG IMPLEMENTATION IN CO2 INJECTION USING FISHBONE WELLS IN LOW PERMEABILITY Oil RESERVOIRS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Enhanced Oil Recovery
WAG
CO2 Injection
Unconventional Oil Reservoirs
Tight Oil Reservoirs
Artificial Neural Network
Machine Learning

File:

Download Khaled_Enab_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, 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