Big Data analytics in oil and gas industry: An emerging trend
December 2020
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
December 2019
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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Sand production: A smart control framework for risk mitigation
March 2020
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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A review on casing while drilling technology for oil and gas production with well control model and economical analysis
March 2019
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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CO2 utilization: Developments in conversion processes
March 2017
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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Role of biosurfactants in bioremediation of oil pollution-a review
September 2018
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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Solid amine sorbents for CO2 capture by chemical adsorption: A review
March 2017
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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An experimental study of diesel fuel cloud and pour point reduction using different additives
December 2019
An experimental study was conducted to investigate the effects of four different additives on pour point and cloud point temperatures of a diesel fuel. Sample mixtures were prepared in different volumetric...
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Review on chemical enhanced oil recovery using polymer flooding: Fundamentals, experimental and numerical simulation
June 2020
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
June 2017
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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Predicting saturated vapor pressure of LNG from density and temperature data with a view to improving tank pressure management
March 2021
Determining the saturated vapor pressure (SVP) of LNG requires detailed thermodynamic calculations based on compositional data. Yet LNG compositions and SVPs evolve constantly for LNG stored in tanks....
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A novel rate of the reaction between NaOH with CO2 at low temperature in spray dryer
March 2017
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an influential greenhouse gas that has a significant impact on global warming partly. Nowadays, many techniques are available to control and remove CO2 in different chemical...
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CO2 storage in depleted gas reservoirs: A study on the effect of residual gas saturation
March 2018
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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Artificial lift system optimization using machine learning applications
June 2022
Currently, in the oil industry, artificial lift optimization (ALO) systems are dealing with different applications including well monitor and control, reservoir management, production optimization,...
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Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM) study, on reciprocating compressors API 618
June 2017
The Oil & Gas industry has continuously increased its requirements and together with the high complexity of technological systems and the higher competitiveness of markets, has compelled providers to...
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A review of recent developments in CO2 mobility control in enhanced oil recovery
September 2022
Carbon dioxide-enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) has gained widespread attention in light of the declining conventional oil reserves. Moreover, CO2-EOR contributes to the reduction of the global emissions...
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A review on hydraulic fracturing of unconventional reservoir
March 2015
Hydraulic fracturing is widely accepted and applied to improve the gas recovery in unconventional reservoirs. Unconventional reservoirs to be addressed here are with very low permeability, complicated...
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A review of crosslinked fracturing fluids prepared with produced water
December 2016
The rapidly increasing implementations of oilfield technologies such as horizontal wells and multistage hydraulic fracturing, particularly in unconventional formations, have expanded the need for fresh...
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Application of nanotechnology for enhancing oil recovery – A review
December 2016
Nanotechnology has attracted a great attention in enhancing oil recovery (EOR) due to the cost-effective and environmental friendly manner. The size of nanoparticles for EOR usually is in a range of...
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Prediction of permeability from well logs using a new hybrid machine learning algorithm
March 2023
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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Emergence of nanotechnology in the oil and gas industry: Emphasis on the application of silica nanoparticles
December 2017
The application of nanotechnology in the oil and gas industry is on the rise as evidenced by the number of researches undertaken in the past few years. The quest to develop more game-changing technologies...
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A comprehensive review on proppant technologies
March 2016
The main function of traditional proppants is to provide and maintain conductive fractures during well production where proppants should meet closure stress requirement and show resistance to diagenesis...
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A review of in situ upgrading technology for heavy crude oil
June 2021
With the growing demand of oil worldwide, heavy oil has increasingly become vital in the world energy market. However, further development of heavy oil reservoirs are limited by regular enhanced oil...
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Prediction of oil flow rate through an orifice flow meter: Artificial intelligence alternatives compared
December 2020
Fluid-flow measurements of petroleum can be performed using a variety of equipment such as orifice meters and wellhead chokes. It is useful to understand the relationship between flow rate through orifice...
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Surfactant and nanoparticle synergy: Towards improved foam stability
Available online 24 February 2023
Surfactant foam stability gets a lot of interest while posing a significant obstacle to many industrial operations. One of the viable solutions for addressing gas mobility concerns and boosting reservoir...
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