The continuous growth of energy requirements, together with diminishing production,
necessitates tireless efforts to develop new technology frontiers in oilfield operations. The …

The process of drilling oil and gas wells generates large volumes of drill cuttings and spent
muds. The American Petroleum Institute estimates that in 1995, about 150 million barrels of …

One hundred fractured reservoirs from around the world were evaluated to determine how
ultimate recovery was affected by inherent reservoir and fluid properties, such as porosity …

A new simulator for foam-acid diversion is described. The simulator explicitly accounts for
the first time for the effects of gas trapping on gas mobility in foam and in liquid injected after …

For more than five decades, hydraulic fracturing has been widely used to enhance oil and
gas production. Hydraulic fracturing in solid materials (eg, rock) has been studied …

Simulation results of near-wellbore failure phenomena are presented from a joint
experimental-numerical study directed at developing a robust numerical simulation …

Produced water is naturally occurring water that is produced as a byproduct during the
exploration and production of oil and natural gas from the subsurface system. Produced …

The depletion of traditional oil fields is driving the oil & gas industry to explore new
exploitation sites previously considered as unprofitable. Deep-sea oil fields represent one of …

Produced water (PW) is an undesirable byproduct generated from oil and natural gas
production. Due to the large volume produced, managing its disposal is challenging …

Reversible invert emulsion muds (RIEMs) offer unique advantages over other oil-based
muds for the completion of a well due to the pH-responsiveness of reversible emulsifiers …