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Author:

Shang, Bin

Title:

Design of Brine Disposal Wells in Depleted Gas Reservoirs via Artificial Intelligence Protocols

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

ANN
Brine Disposal
Depleted Gas Reservoirs

File:

Download Bin_Shang_Masters_Thesis_July_26_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member

Author:

Singh, Madhu

Title:

Density-based rescaled exponential model for gas-condensate reservoirs during boundary-dominated flow

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

density-based
rescaled exponential
gas-condensate
boundary dominated flow
variable bottomhole pressure
multiphase flow
analytical model

File:

Download MadhuSingh_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
John Yilin Wang, Committee 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:

Zhang, Zhenzihao

Title:

Predicting Petrophysical Properties From Rate-Transient Data: An Artificial Intelligence Application

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Relative Permeability
Capillary Pressure
Permeability
Artificial Neural Network
Rate-Transient Data
Petrophysical Properties

File:

Download Dissertation_ZhenzihaoZhang_20170713.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Ming Xiao, 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:

Yavuz, Mehmet Zulkuf

Title:

AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION FOR EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF CYCLIC CO2 INJECTION IN NATURALLY FRACTURED BLACK-OIL RESERVOIRS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

CYCLIC CO2 INJECTION
NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK (ANN)

File:

Download Mehmet_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Will, Ryan David

Title:

A GENERAL COMPOSITIONAL RESCALED-EXPONENTIAL MODEL FOR MULTI-PHASE, BOUNDARY-DOMINATED PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Rate transient analysis
gas condensate
volatile oil
analytical mode
compositional reservoir modeling
rescaled-exponential
boundary-dominated performance analysis

File:

Download Ryan_Will_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis F Ayala H, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Yun

Title:

MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENT FOR FLOWBACK RATE TRANSIENT ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Flowback Analysis
Rate Transient Analysis (RTA)
Production Data Analysis (PDA)
Fracture Characterization
Two-phase Flowback Model
Single-phase Flowback Model
Shale Gas
Tight Sand Gas

File:

Download Yun_YangMaster_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis F Ayala H, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member

Author:

Alsaffar, Mohammed Ahmed

Title:

IMPACT OF MICROBIAL IRON REDUCTION ON RESERVOIR SOURING DURING WATERFLOODING

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Reservoir Souring
SRB
FeRB
Iron Reduction
Sulfate Reduction

File:

Download PSU-Thesis-Mohammed-AlSaffar_Proofread_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell T. Johns, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee 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