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

Combustion Assisted Gravity Drainage (CAGD): An In-Situ Combustion Method to Recover Heavy
Oil and Bitumen from Geologic Formations using a Horizontal Injector-Producer Pair ........................ 40
Well Spacing and Infill Drilling in Coalbed Methane Reservoirs .......................................................... 42
Drilling through Gas Hydrate Formations ........................................................................................ 43
Experimental and Numerical Simulation Studies to Evaluate Improvement of Light Oil Recovery by
WACO 2
and SWACO 2
in Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs ................................................................ 44
Enhanced Oil Recovery of Viscous Oil by Injection of Water-in-Oil Emulsions ....................................... 46
Managed Pressure Drilling Candidate Selection ............................................................................... 47
Alternate Power and Energy Storage/Reuse for Drilling Rigs: Reduced Cost and Lower Emissions
Provide Lower Footprint for Drilling Operations ............................................................................ 48
Cement Fatigue Failure and HPHT Well Integrity .............................................................................. 49
Propagation of Induced Hydraulic Fractures near Pre-Existing Fractures ............................................. 50
Using Downhole Temperature Measurement to Assist Reservoir Characterization and Optimization ......... 51
Optimization of Horizontal Well Performance in Low-Permeability Gas Reservoirs ................................. 53
Decision Matrix for Liquid Loading in Gas Wells for Cost/Benefit Analyses of Lifting Options (Part 2) ....... 54
Investigation of Swirl Flows Applied to the Oil and Gas Industry ........................................................ 55
Potential for CO 2
Sequestration and Enhanced Coalbed Methane Production, NW Black Warrior Basin ..... 57
Transient Multiphase Sand Transport in Horizontal Wells ................................................................... 58
Performance Driven Hydraulic Fracture Design for Deviated Wells ...................................................... 59
Carbonate Heterogeneity and Acid Fracture Performance ................................................................. 60
Modeling and Analysis of Reservoir Response to Stimulation by Water Injection .................................. 61
Fracture Aperture Variation Caused by Reactive Transport of Silica and
Poro-Thermoelastic Effect ......................................................................................................... 62
Rheological Properties of a New Class of Viscoelastic Surfactant ........................................................ 63
Acid Hydrolysis of Carboxybetaine Viscoelastic Surfactant ................................................................ 65
Evaluation of Polymer-Based In-Situ Gelled Acids during Well Stimulation .......................................... 66
Modeling of Discrete Fracture Network using Voronoi Grid System ..................................................... 68
Thermo-Poroelastic Finite Element Analysis of Rock Deformation and Damage .................................... 70
Application of Adaptive Gridding and Upscaling for Improved Tight Gas Reservoir Simulation ................ 71
Measurement and Correlation of Gas Viscosities at High Pressures and High Temperatures ................... 72
Measurement of Gas Viscosity at High Pressures and High Temperatures ............................................ 73
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Crisman Annual Report 2009