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Big Data analytics in oil and gas industry: An emerging trend

This paper reviews the utilization of Big Data analytics, as an emerging trend, in the upstream and downstream oil and gas industry. Big Data or Big Data analytics refers to a new technology which can...

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Significant aspects of carbon capture and storage – A review

Excessive emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere has resulted in a progressive climate change and global warming in the past decades. There have been many approaches developed to reduce the...

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Solid amine sorbents for CO2 capture by chemical adsorption: A review

Amines are well-known for their reversible reactions with CO2, which make them ideal for CO2 capture from several gas streams, including flue gas. In this respect, selective CO2 absorption by aqueous...

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CO2 utilization: Developments in conversion processes

Carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) –including conversion to valuable chemicals-is a challenging contemporary issue having multi-facets. The prospect to utilize carbon dioxide (CO2)...

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Prediction of permeability from well logs using a new hybrid machine learning algorithm

Permeability is a measure of fluid transmissibility in the rock and is a crucial concept in the evaluation of formations and the production of hydrocarbon from the reservoirs. Various techniques such...

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Role of biosurfactants in bioremediation of oil pollution-a review

The energy resources mainly petroleum and petroleum hydrocarbons are major pollutants of the environment. The oil and oil products contamination may cause severe harm and hence, the attention has been...

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Super gas wet and gas wet rock surface: State of the art evaluation through contact angle analysis

Recently, super gas wet and gas wet surfaces have been extensively attended in petroleum industry, as supported by the increasing number of publications in the last decade related to wettability alteration...

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Sand production: A smart control framework for risk mitigation

Due to the current global oil price, the sand production is considered undesirable product and the control of sand production is considered as one of the main concerns of production engineers. It can...

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Petroleum system analysis-conjoined 3D-static reservoir modeling in a 3-way and 4-way dip closure setting: Insights into petroleum geology of fluvio-marine deposits at BED-2 Field (Western Desert, Egypt)

Imperfect determination of petroleum system processes coincidence, entrapment and charge timing, along with reservoir heterogeneity can considerably cause high risks throughout exploration and development...

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Investigation of replacing tracer flooding analysis by capacitance resistance model to estimate interwell connectivity

Interwell connectivity is an essential parameter for managing waterflooding operations in a field. Analysis of the tracer injection operation is a well-known approach to studying injected fluids distribution...

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Development and performance evaluation of a high temperature resistant, internal rigid, and external flexible plugging agent for water-based drilling fluids

During the drilling process for oil and gas production, a larger number of drilling fluids invade the formation, causing severe formation damage and wellbore collapsing, which seriously hinders the...

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A review on casing while drilling technology for oil and gas production with well control model and economical analysis

The extraction of petroleum fluids from sub-surface accumulations mandates the drilling of a well into the formation containing the accumulation. The drilling techniques have evolved over time to overcome...

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Experimental study on sand production and coupling response of silty hydrate reservoir with different contents of fine clay during depressurization

To further understand the characteristics of clay and sand production (hereafter collectively referred to as sand production) and to provide optimization designs of sand control schemes are critical...

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Anti-drilling ability of Ziliujing conglomerate formation in Western Sichuan Basin of China

The conglomerate rock is usually featured by strong heterogeneity, high abrasiveness, and poor drillability due to its complex composition and texture, which brought a huge challenge for drilling efficiency....

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Comparative study of natural chemical for enhanced oil recovery: Focus on extraction and adsorption at quartz sand surface

In chemical enhanced oil recovery (CEOR), it is very important to utilize the excessive usage of chemicals. A great opportunity lies in adopting natural surfactants, since it is cheaper, ecosystem friendly,...

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Improvement of reservoir quality of ultra-deep tight sandstones by tectonism and fluid: A case study of Keshen gas field in Tarim Basin, western China

The Keshen gas field is one of the most important natural gas supply sources in the Tarim basin, western China. The main gas producing interval there is the Lower Cretaceous Bashijiqike Formation(K1bs),...

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Review on chemical enhanced oil recovery using polymer flooding: Fundamentals, experimental and numerical simulation

The EOR techniques are employed to recover more oil from mature reservoirs after the primary and secondary oil production stages. Polymer flooding as a chemical EOR method involves adding polymer molecules...

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Most common surfactants employed in chemical enhanced oil recovery

Chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and particularly surfactant injection has recently received a great deal of attention. The suggested recovery mechanisms after injecting surfactants include wettability...

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Optimization design of multi-gathering mode for the surface system in coalbed methane field

As a potential resource for emerging clean energy with abundant reserves, coalbed methane (CBM) has risen rapidly in recent years, and the construction of rational and economical CBM gathering system...

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Production optimization under waterflooding with long short-term memory and metaheuristic algorithm

In petroleum domain, optimizing hydrocarbon production is essential because it does not only ensure the economic prospects of the petroleum companies, but also fulfills the increasing global demand...

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CO2 storage in depleted gas reservoirs: A study on the effect of residual gas saturation

Depleted gas reservoirs are recognized as the most promising candidate for carbon dioxide storage. Primary gas production followed by injection of carbon dioxide after depletion is the strategy adopted...

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Preparation and properties of a double quaternary ammonium copolymer used in acid fracturing

Triethylamine (TEA), 1, 4-dibromobutane (C4H8Br2) and N, N-dimethylaminopropyl acrylamide (DMAPAA) were selected to synthesize a double quaternary ammonium cationic monomer (TDD). TDD, acrylamide (AM),...

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Risk assessment of oil and gas pipelines hot work based on AHP-FCE

A new quantitative risk assessment method for hot work is proposed based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE). It can help pipeline companies realize the...

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Sealing performance and mechanical response of mud pump piston

In order to explore the effect of piston cup structure on its sealing characteristics and mechanical properties, a numerical simulation model of the piston cup in the BW-160 mud pump was established....

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