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Author:

Al Ghamdi, Bander Nasser

Title:

Examination of Unconventional Phenomena in Naturally Fracture Liquid-rich Gas Reservoirs: Single-block Compositional Model

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Liquid-Rich reservoirs
Diffusion
Naturally fractured systems
Capillary pressure
Unconventional reservoirs
Compositional

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Bander_Al_Ghamdi.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis F Ayala H, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Mathieu Philippe Stienon, Committee Member

Author:

Bao, Chen

Title:

Understanding Hydrological And Geochemical Controls On Solute Concentrations At Large Scale

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrologic modeling
reactive transport
watershed geochemistry
concentration discharge relationship

File:

Download Chen_phd_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Special Member

Author:

Rajput, Vaibhav Hiralal

Title:

Development of a Compositional Simulator for Liquid-Rich Shale Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Compositional Simulation
Liquid-rich shale reservoirs
Liquid-phase adsorption
Multi-component diffusion
Type curves
Multi-mechanistic flow

File:

Download PS_dissertation_vaibhav_rajput.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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:

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:

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