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Author:

Kumar, Hemant

Title:

Poromechanical Response of Naturally Fractured Sorbing Media

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coal
Shale
Permeability
Proppant
Modeling
Simulation

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Kumar.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Denis Pone, Special Member

Author:

Abaa, Kelvin Nder

Title:

Laboratory Investigation of Multiphase Permeability Evolution due to Fracturing Fluid Filtrate in Tight Gas Sandstones

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Multiphase
Filtrate
Fracturing
Permeability
Sandstones

File:

Download Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Mku Thaddeus Ityokumbul, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yilin Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Kwadwo Osseo Asare, Special Member

Author:

Fang, Zhicheng

Title:

Summer graduation

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Permeability
Pulse-decay experiment
Analytical solution
Numerical simulation
History-matching method
Pressure-dependent gas properties

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Schwartz, Brandon

Title:

THE EFFECT OF THERMAL CYCLING ON THE PERMEABILITY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SHALE

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Permeability
Bulk Modulus
Shale
Thermal Cycling

File:

Download Brandon_Schwartz_MASTERS_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Lei, Xiong

Title:

Characterization of Gas-Charged Porous Media from Joint Inversion of P/S- Wave Attenuation Based on OBS and/or Sonic Log Data

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Q estimation
Attenuation inversion
Quality factor
Bayesian inversion
Gas saturation
Porosity
Permeability
OBS
Sonic log

File:

Download Dissertation_XiongLei_revision_v7.pdf

Committee Members:

Eugene Morgan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Keru

Title:

Permeability and Capillary Pressure Relationship in Porous Media

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Permeability
Capillary Pressure
Correlation

File:

Download Liu_Elswoth_2019_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Gregory R King, Committee Member