Seawater and produced water treatment via gas hydrate

S Nallakukkala, B Lal - Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The production of oil and gas can lead to creation of wastewater termed as produced water.
In certain cases, produced water can be greater in volume than the oil or gas itself. Huge …

A review of analytical and semi-analytical fluid flow models for ultra-tight hydrocarbon reservoirs

W Wang, D Fan, G Sheng, Z Chen, Y Su - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
In the last decade, numerous approaches, eg, analytical and semi-analytical pressure
solutions, production decline curve, reservoir-scale numerical models, have been used to …

Surface characteristics and permeability enhancement of shale fractures due to water and supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing

Y Jia, Y Lu, D Elsworth, Y Fang, J Tang - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is an alternative working fluid to water for hydraulic fracturing in shale
reservoirs. It offers advantages as a substitute for the use of large quantities of potable water …

A novel integrated workflow for evaluation, optimization, and production predication in shale plays

B Yuan, D Zheng, RG Moghanloo, K Wang - International Journal of Coal …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper adopts and improves the existing workflows for integrated production data
analysis. Clarkson (2013) presented an integrated production data analysis workflow …

Numerical and experimental analysis of hot dry rock fracturing stimulation with high-pressure abrasive liquid nitrogen jet

S Zhang, Z Huang, P Huang, X Wu, C Xiong… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abrasive liquid nitrogen (L-nitrogen) jet fracturing is a novel technology, which is expected to
be suitable for hot dry rock (HDR) fracturing. In this paper, numerical simulation has been …

[HTML][HTML] Optimization of inflow performance relationship curves for an oil reservoir by genetic algorithm coupled with artificial neural-intelligence networks

H Chen, S Liu, RM Magomedov, AA Davidyants - Energy Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, the effect of parameters on the IPR (Inflow Performance Relationship) curves of
a well is analyzed using a multilayer perceptron artificial neural network. Genetic algorithms …

A comparative experimental study of gas injection in shale plugs by flooding and huff-n-puff processes

Y Yu, L Li, JJ Sheng - Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
The increase in US crude oil over the past decade have been primarily driven by tight and
shale oil. With the high production decline rates in shale reservoirs, improved oil recovery …

Experimental simulation of the hydraulic fracture propagation in an anthracite coal reservoir in the southern Qinshui basin, China

J Liu, Y Yao, D Liu, L Xu, D Elsworth, S Huang… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2018 - Elsevier
As coalbed methane (CBM) reservoirs have extremely low permeability, hydraulic fracturing
is a common stimulation process for enhancing the CBM production. An in-depth …

A new approach to the modeling of hydraulic-fracturing treatments in naturally fractured reservoirs

S Li, D Zhang, X Li - SPE Journal, 2017 - onepetro.org
A fully coupled thermal/hydromechanical (THM) model for hydraulic-fracturing treatments is
developed in this study. In this model, the mixed finite-volume/finite-element method is used …

Pore compressibility of shale formations

Y Lan, RG Moghanloo, D Davudov - SPE Journal, 2017 - onepetro.org
This study introduces a novel outlook on a shale-pore system and on the potential effect of
pore compressibility on the production performance. We divide porosity of the system into …