Crisman Annual Report 2009 - Harold Vance Department of ...

Contents
Vision ........................................................................................................................................ 7
Mission ...................................................................................................................................... 7
Objectives ................................................................................................................................. 7
Summary ................................................................................................................................... 8
Membership History................................................................................................................. 10
Meetings .................................................................................................................................. 11
Summary of Research Results
Casing Failure ............................................................................................................................ 13
An Advisory System for Selecting Drilling Technologies and Methods in Tight Gas Reservoirs ................. 14
Assessment of API Thread Connections under Tight Gas Well Conditions ............................................ 15
Gas Shales – Geomechanics/Completions ...................................................................................... 17
PRISE – Petroleum Resource Investigation Summary and Evaluation ................................................. 18
An Investigation of Regional Variations of Barnett Shale Reservoir Properties, and Resulting Variability
of Hydrocarbon Composition and Well Performance ...................................................................... 19
Gas Shales Simulation and Production Data Analysis ....................................................................... 20
Characterization of Rock Transport Properties in Tight Gas and Shale ................................................. 22
Rate Transient Analysis in Shale Gas Reservoirs with Transient Linear Behavior ................................... 23
An Analytical Approach to Model Shale Gas Reservoir Flow Including Desorption Effects ....................... 24
Water Production Issues in the Barnett Shale ................................................................................. 25
Enhanced Oil Refining Technology through E-Beam Thermal Cracking ................................................ 27
Experimental Investigation of Caustic Steam Injection for Heavy Oils ................................................ 29
Experimental and Simulation Modeling Studies of Steam Assisted Gravity .......................................... 30
In-Situ Oil Upgrading using Tetralin (C 10
H 12
) Hydrogen Donor and Fe(acac) 3
Catalyst at Steam Injection
Pressure and Temperature ........................................................................................................ 31
Artificial Geothermal Energy Potential of Steam-Flooded Heavy Oil Reservoirs ..................................... 33
Study of Solvent-Based Emulsion Injection to Improve Sweep and Displacement Efficiency in Heavy
Oil Reservoir ........................................................................................................................... 34
Investigation of Hybrid Steam-Solvent Processes to Increase Efficiency of Thermal Oil Recovery
Methods ................................................................................................................................. 36
Experimental Studies of Steam Injection with Surfactant for Enhancing Heavy Oil Recovery after
Waterflooding ......................................................................................................................... 38
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