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Phd - 2010
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3-D Seismic Prestack Multicomponent Amplitude Analysis , Vacuum Field , Lea

County , New Mexico
A New Look at Nonlinear Regression in Well Testing
A New Relative Permeability Model for Compositional Simulation of Two and
Three Phase Flow
Algebraic Multiscale Finite-Volume Methods for Reservoir Simulation
Applicability of pH-triggered Polymers to Increase Sweep Efficiency in Fractured
Reservoirs
Application of Real Options to Valuation and Decision Making in the Petroleum E
& P Industry
Chemical Reaction Modeling in a Subsurface Flow Simulator with Application to
In-Situ Upgrading and CO2 Mineralization
Data Assimilation Using The Ensemble Kalman Filter With Emphasis On The
Inequality Constraints
Development of a Chemical Treatment for Condensate and Water Blocking in
Carbonate Gas Reservoirs

Effect of Pressure and Methane on Microemulsion Phase Behavior and Its Impact
on Surfactant-Polymer Flood Oil Recovery
Feedback Control of Polymer Flooding Process Considering Geologic
Uncertainty
Foam Assisted Low Interfacial Tension Enhanced Oil Recovery
Fracture Permeability Characterization At Weyburn Field , From Shear Wave
Anisotropy Through Flow Simulation
Gas Sorption And The Consequent Volumetric And Permeability Change Of Coal
Grain-Scale Mechanisms of Particle Retention in Saturated and Unsaturated
Granular Materials
History Matching Of 3D Reservoir Models With Complex Non-Gaussian
Distributions Of The Model Parameters
Improving The EnKF For History Matching Multiscale Parameterization And
Bootstrap-Based Screening
Interferometry In Perturbed Media , Rciprocity Theorems , Deconvolution
Interferometry , And Imaging Of Borehole Seismic Data
Interpretation Of Multi-Component Induction And Sonic Measurements Acquired
In High-Angle Wells And Joint
Inversion Of Multicomponent Time Lapse Seismic Data For Reservoir
Characterization Of Vacuum Field , New Mexico
Investigation Of Plugging In Orifice, Slot, And Pore-Throat By Fine Particles
Matrix Heterogeneity Effects On Fluid Transport In Porous Medium Using
Perturbation Theory
On the Value of Information for Spatial Problems in the Earth Sciences
Optimization of Field Development Using Particle Swarm Optimization and New
Well Pattern Descriptions
Pore Scale Characterization And Modeling Of Two Phase Flow In Tight Gas
Real Time Optimization Of Drilling Parameters During Drilling Operations
Recovery of Stranded Heavy Oil by Electromagnetic Heating

Relating Time Series in Data to Spatial Variation in the Reservoir Using Wavelets
Sequential Methods For Coupled Geomechanics And Multiphase Flow
Shear-Wave Sourced 3-D VSP Imaging Of Tight-Gas Sandstone In Rulison Field ,
Colorado
Statistical Moment Equations for Forward and Inverse Modeling of Multiphase
Flow in Porous Media
The Virtual Source Method , Implementation Issues , Improvement Using
Wavefield Separation And Application To Time Lapse Monitoring
Time Lapse Multicomponent Borehole Seismic Monitoring Of A Pilot CO2 Flood
Time Lapse Multicomponent Seismic Characterization Of The San Andres
Reservoir At Central Vacuum Unit , Lea County , New Mexico
Topics On The Seismic Characterization Of Fractured Reservoirs
Using Time Lapse Seismic Measurements To Improve Flow Modeling Of CO2
Injection In The Weyburn Field , A Naturally Fractured , Layered Reservoir

Phd - 2009
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Analysis Of Hydraulic Fracture Propagation In Fractured Reservoirs An Improved

Model For The Interaction Between Induced And Natural Fractures
Development And Application Of A Coupled Geomechanics Model For A Parallel
Compositional Reservoir Simulator
Development And Application Of Reduced Order Modeling Procedures For
Reservoir Simulation
Development Of An Equation Of State Thermal Flooding Simulator
Efficient Drilling Problem Detection ? Early Fault Detection By The Combination
Of Physical Models And Artificial Intelligence
Flow Behavior Of Gas Condensate Wells

Integrating Sequence Stratigraphy And Rock Physics To Interpret Seismic

Amplitudes And Predict Reservoir Quality
Interwell Connectivity Tests In Waterflood Systems
Investigation Of Scale Dependent Dispersivity And Its Impact On Upscaling
Miscible Displacements
Mechanistic Study Of Menisci Motion Within Homogeneously And
Heterogeneously Wet Porous Media
Modeling And Simulation Of Dispersed Two Phase Flow Transport Phenomena in
Electrochemical Processes
Modeling Chemical EOR Processes Using IMPEC And Fully Implicit Reservoir
Simulators
Modeling Of Multiphase Behavior For Gas Flooding Simulation
Near Well Upscaling For Two And Three Phase Flows
New Methods For Accurate Upscaling With Full Tensor Effects
Non Parametric Geophysical Data Integration For Reducing Uncertainties In
Multiple Point Reservoir Modeling And Simulation
Rapid Numerical Simulation And Inversion Of Nuclear Borehole Measurements
Acquired In Vertical And Deviated Wells
Rate Transient Analysis In Shale Gas Reservoirs With Transient Linear Behavior
Reservoir Characterization Combining Elastic Velocities And Electrical Resistivity
Measurements
Reservoir Modeling Accounting For Scale Up Of Heterogeneity And Transport
Processes
Rock Mass Engineering of the Proposed BASARA DAM Site , SULAIMANI
KURDISTAN Region, NE-IRAQ
Seismic Anisotropy , Geological Causes And Its Implications To Reservoir
Geophysics
Simulation And Design Of Energized Hydraulic Fractures

Simulation And Interpretation Of Formation Tester Measurements Acquired In

The Presence Of Mud Filtrate Invasion , Multiphase Flow , And Deviated
Wellbores
The Effect of Oil on Carbon Dioxide Corrosion Inhibition on Carbon Steel Potential for Improved Corrosion Protection
Thermal Adaptive Implicit Reservoir Simulation
Water Imbibition , Electrical Surface Forces , And Wettability Of Low Permeability
Fractured Porous Media
Waterflood Efficiency And Single Phase Flow Properties Of Carbonate Porous

Phd - 2008
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Development And Application Of Capacitance Resistive Models To Water CO2

Floods
Development And Implementation Of A Multi-Dimensional Reservoir Souring
Module In A Chemical Flooding Simulator (UTCHEM)
Development Of An Implicit Full Tensor Dual Porosity Compositional Reservoir
Simulator
Development Of Methodology For Optimization And Design Of Chemical Flooding
Dispersion In Large Scale Permeable Media
Empirical Modeling And Simulation Of Edgewater Cusping And Coning
Ensemble Based Closed Loop Production Optimization
Experimental Study And Modeling Of Gas Trapping In Foam Flow In Porous
Media Using A Gas Tracer Technique
Foreland Propagation of Folding and Structure of the Mountain Front Felexure in
the Posht E Kooh Arc Zagros ,Iran
Geomechanical Characterization And Reservoir Simulation Of A CO2
Sequestration Project In A Mature Oil Field Teapot Dome , Wy

Growthsim A Complete Framework For Integrating Static And Dynamic Data Into
Reservoir Models
Hierarchic Modeling And History Matching Of Multi Scale Flow Barriers In
Channelized Reservoirs
Investigation Of Local Mixing And Its Influence On Core Scale Mixing , Dispersion
Iteratively Coupled Reservoir Simulation For Multiphase Flow In Porous Media
Mathematical Modeling And Multiscale Simulation Of CO2 Storage In Saline
Aquifers
Measurement And Modeling Of Multiscale Flow And Transport Through Large
Vug Cretaceous Carbonates
Mechanical Behavior Of Concentric And Eccentric Casing , Cement , And
Formation Using Analytical And Numerical Methods
Mechanistic Modeling , Design , And Optimization Of Alkaline , Surfactant ,
Polymer Flooding
Mixed Finite Element Methods For Discretization And Streamline Tracing
Modeling and Optimizing the offshore Production of Oil and Gas under
Uncertainty
Modeling Reservoir Geomechanics Using Discrete Element Method Application
To Reservoir Monitoring
Numerical Simulation And Interpretation Of Formation Tester Measurements
Acquired In The Presence Of Mud Filtrate Invasion
Optimizing Coalbed Methane Production In The Illinois Basin
Petrology of Ultramafic and Related Rocks Along IRAQI ZAGROS Thrust Zone
PH Sensitive Polymers For Novel Conformance Control And Polymer Flooding
Applications
Pressure Behavior Of a System Containing Multiple Vertical Fractures
Probabilistic Seismic Inversion Based On Rock Physics Models For Reservoir
Characterization
Productivity Equations For Oil Wells In Anisotropic Reservoirs

Relaxation Schemes For Multiphase , Multicomponent Flow In Gas Injection

Processes
Reservoir Simulation Studies For Coupled Co2 Sequestration And Enhanced Oil
Recovery
Simulation And Interpretation Of Formation Tester Measurements Acquired In
The Presence Of Mud Filtrate Invasion And Geomechanical Deformation
Simulation And Inversion Of Borehole Electromagnetic Measurements For The
Estimation Of Petrophysical Properties In The Presence Of Mud Filtrate Invasion
Well Test Analysis In Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Using Eliptical Flow

Phd - 2007
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4D Seismic And Multiple Point Pattern Data Integration Using Geostatistics

A Coupled Wellbore Reservoir Simulator To Model Multiphase Flow And
Temperature Distribution
A Methodology For Incorporating Geomechanically Based Fault Damage Zones
Models Into Reservoir Simulation
A Probabilistic Approach To Jointly Integrated 3D 4D Seismic , Production Data
And Geological Information For Building Reservoir Models
An Ensemble Kalman Filter Module For Automatic History Matching
Analysing Complex Oil Well Problems through Case-Based Reasoning
Analytical Theory For Two Phase , Multicomponent Flow In Porous Media With
Adsorption
Carbon Dioxide Sequestration And Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery In
Unmineable Coalbeds Of The Powder River Basin , Wyoming
Characterization And Modeling Of In Situ Stress Heterogeneity
Development And Application Of The Method Of Distributed Volumetric Sources
To The Problem Of Unsteady State Fluid Flow In Reservoirs

Development Of A Successful Chemical Treatment For Gas Wells With

Condensate Or Water Blocking Damage
Effective Models Of Fractured Systems
Fast And Robust Phase Behavior Modeling For Compositional Reservoir
Simulation
Geomechanical Analysis Applied To Geological Carbon Dioxide Sequestration ,
Induced Seismicity In Deep Mines , And Detection Of Stress Induced Velocity
Anisotropy In Sub Salt Environments
Geostatistical Integration Of Linear Coarse Scale And Fine Scale Data
Global Net To Gross Uncertainty Assessment At Reservoir Appraisal Stage
History Matching By Simultaneous Calibration Of Flow Functions
Integrated Evaluation Of Structural Uncertainty Using History Matching From
Seismic Imaging Uncertainty Model
Nitrogen Injection Into Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Overall Evaluation Of Offshore Drilling Fluid Technology ? Development And
Application Of Life Cycle Inventory And Impact Assessment Methods
Quantification Of Uncertainties Associated With Reservoir Performance
Simulation
Reservoir Analysis Based On Compositional Gradients
Scalable Linear And Nonlinear Algorithms For Multiphase Flow In Porous Media
Stress Triggering Earthquakes And Subsidence In The Louisiana Coastal Zone
Due To Hydrocarbon Production
Sweep Efficiency For Solvent Injection Into Heavy Oil Reservoirs At Grain Scale
Displacement Of Extremely Viscous Fluid
Techniques For Modeling Complex Reservoirs And Advanced Wells
Timing of Shortening and Uplift OF the Pushte E Kooh Arc in Zagros
Topics in Offshore Oil Production Optimization using Real-Time Data

Phd - 2006
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A Hybrid Formulation Of Map Migration And Wave Equation Based Migration

Using Curvelets
An Investigation Of Partitioning Tracers For Characterization Geothermal
Reservoirs And Predicting Enthalpy Production
Analysis Of Continuous Monitoring Data And Rapid , Stochastic Updating Of
Reservoir Models
Analytical Modeling Of A Fracture Injection , Fall Off Sequence And The
Development Of A Refracture Candidate Diagnostic Test
Chemical Stimulation Of Gas Condensate Reservoirs , An Experimental And
Simulation Study
Decision Framework For Well Delivery Processes ? Application Of Analytical
Methods To Decision Making
Discrete Element Modeling Of Rock Fracture Behavior , Fracture Toughness And
Time Dependent Fracture Growth
Effect Of Pressure Depletion On Hydrocarbon Recovery In Naturally Fractured
Reservoirs
Efficient Closed Loop Optimal Control Of Petroleum Reservoirs Under
Uncertainty
Experimental And Simulation Study Of Foam In Porous Media
Foam Generation And Propagation In Homogeneous And Heterogeneous Porous
Media
Fracturing And Fracture Reorientation In Unconsolidated Sands And Sandstones
History Matching Production Data Using Streamlines And Geostatistics
Investigating Statistical Techniques To INFER Interwell Connectivity From
Production And Injection Rate Fluctuations
Multiresolution Reparameterization And Partitioning Of Model Space For
Reservoir Characterization

Multivariable process control in high temperature and high pressure environment

using non-intrusive multi sensor data fusion
Physical And Quantitative Interpretation Of Seismic Attributes For Rocks And
Fluids Identification
Pore Scale Petrophysical Models For The Simulation And Combined
Interpretation Of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance And Wide Band Electromagnetic
Measurements Of Saturated Rocks
Processing And Interpretation Of Pressure Transient Data From Permanent
Downhole Gauges
Rheological Properties of Oil in Water Emulsions and Particulate Suspensions
Settling And Hydrodynamic Retardation Of Proppants In Hydraulic Fractures
Temperature Prediction Model For A Producing Horizontal Well

Phd - 2005
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A Field Study To Assess The Value Of 3D Post-Stack Seismic Data In Forecasting

Fluid Production From A Deepwater Gulf Of Mexico Reservoir
A Generalized Analysis Of Partitioning Interwell Tracer Tests
A Parallel Modeling Approach To Reservoir Characterization
A Physical Consistent Solution For Describing The Transient Response Of
Hydraulically Fractured And Horizontal Wells
Algorithms For Numerical Modeling And Inversion Of Multiphase Fluid Flow And
Electromagnetic Measurements
Automatic History Matching Of Geologic Facies
Bottom Hole Analyses Of Gas Kick ,Inflow , And Gas Reservoir Characterization
While Drilling Underbalanced
Cleanup Of Internal Filter Cake During Flowback.pdf
Closed Form Van Der Waaals Critical Point For Petroleum Reservoir Fluids

Developing Plunger Slippage Equation For Rod Drawn Oil Well Pumps
Development And Implementation Of A Naturally Fractured Reservoir Model Into
A Fully Implicit , Equation Of State Compositional , Parallel Simulator
Effect Of Surfactants On Drop Size Distribution In A Batch, Rotor-Stator Mixer
Experimental And Numerical Simulation Study Of Microbial Oil Recovery Using
Bio Surfactants
Experimental Study Of The Membrane Behavior Of Shale During Integration With
Water Based And Oil Based Muds
Flow Through Drying Of Porous Media
Geochemical Effects In Two Phase Flow
Geologically Consistent History Matching While Perturbing Facies
Integration Geology , Rock Physics , And Seismology For Reservoir Quality
Prediction
Integration Of Time Lapse Seismic Data Into Automatic History Matching
IRSS, An Integrated Reservoir Simulation System
Liquid-Gas Relative Permeabilities In Fractures Effects Of Flow Structures ,
Phase Transformation And Surface Roughness
Mathematics Of Partially Miscible Three Phase Flow
Mechanistic Based Models For Slug Flow In Vertical Pipes
Modeling Naturally Fractured Reservoirs , From Experimental Rock Mechanics To
Flow Simulation
Multiscale Flow And Transport In Highly Heterogeneous Carbonates
Physical Properties And Multi Scale Seismic Anisotropy In The Crust
Surrounding The San Andreas Fault Near Parkfield , Ca
Pore Pressure Estimation From Single And Repeated Seismic Data Sets
Quantitative Detection Of Fluid Distribution Using Time Lapse Seismic
Reservoir Definition Through Integration Of Multiscale Petrophysical Data
Sequential Simulation With Patterns

Simulation Of Borehole Electromagnetic Measurements In Dipping And

Anisotropic Rock Formations And Inversion Of Array Induction Data
The Impact Of Shale Properties On Wellbore Stability
Upscaling And Subgrid Modeling Of Flow And Transport In Heterogeneous
Reservoirs
Upscaling Of Multiphase Flow Parameters For Modeling Near Well And Miscible
Displacements

Phd - 2004
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3-D Numerical Simulation Of Horizontal Well Gravel Pack

A Comprehensive Skin Factor Model For Well Completions Based On Finite
Element Simulations
A Coupled Geomechanics And Reservoir Flow Model On Parallel Computers
A Reservoir Characterization Of Arab D Super K As A Discrete Fracture Network
Flow System Ghawar Field , Saudi Arabia
An Investigation Of Sealing And Episodic Pulsing Of Fluids At A Minibasin
Bounding Growth Fault From Seismic Reflection Images
Application Of New Seismic Attributes To Reservoir Monitoring
Chemoporoelastic Solution Of Transversely Isotropic Saturated Porous Media
Fine Scale Sandstone Acidizing Coreflood Simulation
Ground Source Energy In Crystalline Bedrock Increased Energy Extraction By
Using Hydraulic Fracturing In Boreholes
History Matching Pressure Response Functions From Production Data
Issues Of Engineering And Geochemistry In The Sequestration Of Carbon Dioxide
In Geological Formations Saline Aquifiers
Numerical Simulation Of Multi Phase Mud Filtrate Invasion And Inversion Of
Formation Tester Data

Permeability Evaluation Sandstone , Digital Rock Approach

Prediction of Reservoir Properties of the N Sand Vermilion Block 50 , Gulf of
Mexico, Front Multivarient Seismic
Production Induced Reservoir Compaction , Permeability Loss And Land Surface
Subsidence
Quantitative Data Integration For Fracture Characterization Using Statistical Rock
Physics
Rock Strength Under True Triaxial Loading , Seismotectonics Of Northern South
America And Geomechanics And Coal Bed Methane Production In The Powder
River Basin
Streamline Based Simulation Of Two Phase Multicomponent Flow In Porous
Media
Structured Flow Based Gridding And Upscaling For Reservoir Simulation
Temperature , Surface Forces , Wettability And Their Relationship To Relative
Permeability Of Porous Media
Time Lapse Monitoring With Coda Wave Interferometry

Phd - 2003
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Accurate Coarse Reservoir Modeling Using Unstructured Grids , Flow Based

Upscaling And Streamline Simulation
Application Of Viscoelastic , Viscoplastic And Rate And State Friction
Constitutive Laws To The Deformation Of Unconsolidated Sands
Coarse Scale Simulation Of Tight Gas Reservoirs
Computational Rock Physics , Transport Properties In Porous Media And
Applications
Design And Implementation Of A New Geostatistical Library And Software
System

Development And Applications Of Production Optimization Techniques For

Petroleum Fields
Improved Bottomhole Pressure Control for Underbalanced Drilling Operations
Incorporating Subcritical Crack Growth Mechanics Into Natural Fracture
Characterization For Improved Reservoir Simulation
Intrinsic And Stress Induced Velocity Anisotropy In Unconsolidated Sands
Mechanical Constraints On The Strength Of The Lithosphere And Plate Bounded
Faults
Mechanisms and Control of Water Inflow to Wells in Gas Reservoirs with BottomWater Drive
Modeling Tracers And Contaminant Flux In Heterogeneous Aquifers
Multicomponent Multiphase Flow In Porous Media With Temperature Variation Or
Adsorption
Optimum Deployment Of Nonconventional Wells
Reactive Transport Modeling In Fractures And Two Phase Flow
Seismic Ray Fields And Ray Field Maps Theory And Algorithms
Seismic Velocities In Unconsolidated Sands Measurements Of Pressure , Sorting
, And Compaction Effects
Simulation Of Wave Propagation In Boreholes And Radial Profiling Of Formation
Elastic Parameters
Stochastic Inversion Of Pre Stack Seismic Data To Improve Forecasts Of
Reservoir Production
Theoretical And Experimental Study Of Foam For Enhanced Oil Recovery And
Acid Diversion

Phd - 2002
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An Effective Method Of Stochastic Simulation Of Complex Large Scale Transport

Processes In Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Analysis of Diagnostic Testing of Sustained Casing Pressure in Wells
Analytical Model to Control Off - Bottom Blowouts Utilizing the Concept of
Simultaneous Dynamic Seal and Bullheading
Application Of Grid Simulation To Analyze Pressure Transient Behavior Of
Hydraulically Fractured Vertical Wells
Development Of Techniques For General Purpose Simulators
Dual Porosity Approach To Wellbore Stability In Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Experimental Evaluation of Control Fluid Fallback during Off-Bottom Well Control
in Vertical and Deviated Wells
Improving Well Productivity By Evaluating And Reducing Formation Damage
During Overbalanced And Underbalanced Drilling Operations
Laboratory Imaging Of Hydraulic Fractures Using Microseismicity
Modeling And Simulation Studies Of Foam Processes In Improved Oil Recovery
And Acid Diversions
Modeling And Upscaling Of Nonconventional Wells In Heterogeneous Reservoirs
Modeling Interporosity Flow For Improved Simulation Of Naturally Fractured
Reservoirs
Modeling Techniques For Generating Fluvial Reservoir Descriptions Conditioned
To Static And Dynamic Data
Modelling And Control Of Fluid Flows And Marine Structures
Natural Fracture Modeling And Characterization
Oil systems, naphthenic acid chemistry and emulsion stability
Optimization Of Well Placement And Assessment Of Uncertainty
Predicting Petrophysical Properties By Simultaneous Inversion Of Seismic And
Reservoir Engineering Data
Production Induced Reservoir Compaction And Surface Subsidence , With
Applications To 4D Seismic

Rock Physics Of Low Porosity Sandstones For Seismic Reservoir

Characterization
Scaling Parameters For Characterizing Gravity Drainage In Naturally Fractured
Reservoir
Stablized Finite Element Methods For Coupled Geomechanics And Multiphase
Flow
Streamline Approaches For Integrating Production History With Geologic
Information In Reservoir Models
The Interaction Of Tectonic And Magmatic Processes In The Long Valley Caldera ,
California
Water Infiltration In Fractured Porous Media , In Situ Imaging , Analytical Model ,
And Numerical Study

Phd - 2001
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Acidizing Of Naturally-Fractured Carbonate Formations

An Integrated Geologic And Engineering Reservoir Characterization Of The North
Robertson , Clear Fork Unit , Gaines County , Texas
Analysis Of Layered Gas Reservoir Performance Using A Semi Analytical
Solution For Rate And Pressure Behavior
Analysis Of Long Term Behavior In Tight Gas Reservoirs Case Histories
Azimuthal Anisotropy Of 3D Compressional Wave Seismic Data , Weyburn Field ,
Saskatchewan , Canada
Development Of A Three-Segment Hydraulic Model For Cuttings Transport In
Horizontal And Deviated Wells
Horizontal Well Productivity And Wellbore Pressure Behavior Incorporating
Wellbore Hydraulics
Reservoir Parameter Estimation Using Wavelet Analysis

Rock Physics And 3D Seismic Characterization Of Reservoir Heterogeneities To

Improve Recovery Efficiency
Stress , Borehole Stability , And Hydrocarbon Leakage In The Northern North Sea
Techniques To Handle Limitations Dynamic Relative Permeability Measurements
The Effect Of Small Scale Heterogeneity On The Propagation Of Waves
The Numerical Simulation Of Two Phase Flow In Settling Tanks
Time-Lapse , Multicomponent Seismic Analysis Of Reservoir Dynamics
Viscoelastic Measurements Of Fracturing Fluids For Proppant Transport
Application
Water Flow in Horizontal Pipes
Wave Speeds In Gas Hydrate And Sediments Containing Gas Hydrate , A
Laboratory And Modeling Study

M.Sc 2010
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4D Multicomponent Seismic Characterization Of Glorieta Paddock Carbonate

Reservoir At Vacuum Field , New Mexico
A Life Cycle Optimization Approach to Hydrocarbon Recovery
A Metropolis Sampling Method to Assess Uncertainty of Seismic Impedance
Inverted from Seismic Amplitude Data
A Microvisual Investigation of Viscously Unstable Displacement for CO2 Injection
A Polymer Hydrolysis Model and its Application to Chemical EOR Process
Simulation
A Predictive Model for Sand Production in Poorly Consolidated Sands
Addition of Condensable or Non-Condensable Gas to Steamflood Processes for
Improved Heavy Oil Recovery by Gravity Drainage

An Experimental and Simulation Study of the Effect of Geochemical Reactions on

Chemical Flooding
Anisotropic Parameter Estimation From Borehole Data At Weyburn Field
Uncertainty And Resolution
Assessment of Polymer Injectivity during Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery
Processes
Automatic Picking And Classification Of Acoustic Emission Event Arrivals
Calculation Of Residual Oil Saturation For Surfactant Flood EOR Process From
Injection Well Pressure Data
CFD-Based Representation Of Non-Newtonian Polymer Injectivity For A
Horizontal Well With Coupled Formation -Wellbore Hydraulics
Comparative Study Of Pressure Drop Model Equations For Fluid Flow In Pipes
Composition Variation During Flow of Gas-Condensate Wells
Construction Of Static And Dynamic Multi-Layer Petrophysical Models In
Camisea Gas Reservoirs , Peru
Correlating Wettability Alteration with Changes in Gas Permeability in Gas
Condensate Reservoirs
Determination Of Relative Permeability From Well Production By Consideration
Of Fluid Type, Formation Heterogeneity, And Skin
Development of a Coupled Wellbore-Reservoir Compositional Simulator for
Horizontal Wells
Development of Improved ASP Formulations for Reactive and Non-reactive Crude
Oils
Dynamic Reservoir Characterization Using P-Wave Seismic Time-Lapse At Postle
Field , Texas County , Oklahoma
Enhanced Linearized Reduced-Order Models for Subsurface Flow Simulation
Estimation Of Uncertainty In Microseismic Event Location Associated With
Hydraulic Fracturing
Evaluation Of Alternatives For Disposal And Monetization Of Associated Natural
Gas ? Offshore Deepwater BRAZIL

Experimental Parameter Analysis Of Nanoparticle Retention In Porous Media

Experimental Study Of Similarities In The Filtration And Resistivity Properties Of
Water-Based And Oil-Based Muds
Exploring Direct Sampling and Iterative Spatial Resampling in History Matching
Field Observations of Gas-Condensate Well Testing
Formation Linear Flow Model Applied To The Bakken Shale
Forward Modeling And Interpretation Of Multicomponent Seismic Data For
Fracture Characterization , Weyburn Field , Saskatchewan
Geologic CO2 Storage Understanding Pressure Perturbations and Estimating
Risk due to Pressure Buildup
Geomechanical Modeling As A Reservoir Characterization Tool At Rulison Field ,
Piceance basin , Colorado
Hierarchical Modeling Of Fractures For Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Horizontal Borehole Stability In Transversely Isotropic Media
Hybrid Simulation of the Eulerian Method and the Streamline Method
Investigating the Role of Cross-Product in Cross-Over Time Between the Two
Methods
Hydraulic Fracture Model Sensitivity Analyses Of Massively Stacked Lenticular
Reservoirs In The Mesa Verde Formation , Southern Piceance Basin , Colorado
Identifying Abberant Segments in Permanent Downhole Gauge Data
Integrated Permeability Modeling Of The Morrow A Sandstone , Hovey Morrow
Unit Postle Field , Texas County , Oklahoma
Linear Solvers and Coupling Methods for Compositional Reservoir Simulators
Linking Geostatistics with Basin and Petroleum System Modeling Assessment of
Spatial Uncertainties
Managed Pressure Drilling Techniques, Equipments & Applications
Petroleum Development Optimization under Uncertainty Integrating MultiCompartment Tank Models in Mixed Integer Non-Linear Programs

Pre-Stack Depth Migration And Attribute Analysis Of 3-D Time Lapse P-Wave Data
Vacuum Field , New Mexico
Proposal Of A Rapid Model Updating And Feedback Control Scheme For Polymer
Flooding Processes
Proppant Settling in Viscoelastic Surfactant (VES) Fluids
Quantitative Geometric Model of Connected Carbonaceous Material in Mudrocks
Quantitative Interpretation Of Pulsed Neutron Capture Logs , Fast Numerical
Simulation And Inversion In Thinly -Bedded Formations
Rapid Modeling of LWD Nuclear Measurements Acquired in High-Angle and
Horizontal Wells for Improved Petrophysical and Geometrical Interpretation
Reduced-Order Modeling for Thermal Simulation
Remediation of Possible Leakage from Geologic CO2 Storage Reservoirs into
Groundwater Aquifers
Scale-up Methodology for Chemical Flooding
Seismic Interpretation Of Reservoir System And Facies Architecture North
Apsheron Ridge , Caspian Sea
Seismic Investigation Of Wrench Faulting And Fracturing At Rulison Field ,
Colorado
Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) For Solving Constrained Production
Optimization , Case Study From Brugge Field
Shear Wave Azimuthal Avo Analysis , Vacuum Field , New Mexico
Simulation Studies of Thin Heavy Oil Reservoirs
Statistical Applications To Quantitative Seismic Reservoir Characterization And
Monitoring At West Pearl Queen Field , Lea County , New Mexico
Study of Pattern Correlation Between Time Lapse Seismic Data and Saturation
Changes
The Role Of Shear And Tensile Failure In Dynamically Triggered Landslides
The Use Of Time Lapse P Wave Impedance Inversion To Monitor A CO2 Flood At
Weyburn Field , Saskatchewan

Thermodynamic Equilibrium Computation of Systems with an Arbitrary Number

of Phases Flow Modeling with Lattice Boltzmann Methods
Ultra Light Weight Proppants in Shale Gas Fracturing
Uncertainties In Shale Gas In-Pplace Calculations Molecular Simulation Approach
Variable Impacts On Asset Producibility , Specifically Porosity Reducing Effects
On Proppant Packs Used In Unconventional Natural Gas Producing Wells
Wrench Faulting At Weyburn Field , Saskatchewan

M.Sc 2009
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A New Series Of Rate Decline Relations Based On The Diagnosis Of Rate Time
Data
A Simulation-Based Evaluation of Alternative Initial Responses to Gas Kicks
During Managed Pressure Drilling Operations
Constrained Production Optimization With An Emphasis On Derivative Free
Methods
Construction Of Hybrid Geostatical Models Combining Surface Based Methods
With Object Based Simulation , Use Of Flow Direction And Drainage Area
Coreflooding Oil Displacements With Low Salinity Brine
Coupled CO2 Sequestration And Enhanced Oil Recovery Optimization Using
Experimental Design And Response Surface Methodology
Detailed Near Well Modeling And Upscaling In Condensate Systems
Detection Of Stiction In Control Valves An Algorithm For The Offshore Oil And
Gas Industry
Development Of Reservoir Models Using Economic Loss Functions
Economic Viability Of Compressed Natural Gas , CNG , As A Gas Transportation
Alternative To Pipeline Transportation
Effect Of Perforation Orientations For Sand Prediction

Effects Of Salinity On The Hydraulic Characteristics Of Welan Gum Fluids In

Straight And Coiled Tubing
Efficiency Study Of The Multiscale Finite Volume Formulation For Multiphase
Flow And Transport
Field Examples Of The Combined Petrophysical Inversion Of Gamma Ray ,
Density , And Resistivity Logs Acquired In Thinly Bedded Clastic Rock
Formations
Fracture Stimulation In Enhanced Geothermal Systems
Gas Reserves Estimation By Monte Carlo Simulation And Chemical Flooding
Optimization Using Experimental Design And Response Surface Methodology
Interaction Of Phase Behavior , Nonuniform Flow And Transverse Mixing In Gas
Oil Displacements
Interactive Interpretation Of Nuclear Logs With Fast Modeling Procedures
Inversion Of Converted-Wave Seismic Data For Reservoir Characterization At
Rulison Field , Colorado
K-AR Dating Of Authigenic Illites , Integrating The Diagenetic History Of The
Fluvial Williams Fork Formation , Mesaverde Group , Piceance Basin , NW
Colorado
Laboratory Study Of Downhole Gas Separators In Inclined Wellbore
Configurations
Low Tension Methods For Fractured Resources
Modeling Sub Core Scale Permeability In Sandstone For Use In Studying
Multiphase Flow Of CO2 And Brine In Core Flooding Experiments
Modeling Of Compressor Characterisics And Active Surge Control
Modeling Study Of A Single Well Enhanced Geothermal System , EGS
Modeling The Displacement Of Gases In Coal Beds
Monitoring And Control Of Smart Wells
Multicomponent Gas Diffusion And Adsorption In Coals For Enhanced Methane
Recovery

Multistage Preconditioner For Well Groups And Automatic Differentiation For

Next Generation GPRS
Numerical Simulation Of Water And Oil Base Mud Filtrate Invasion In Vertical
Wells And Corresponding Impact On Monopole And Dipole Sonic Waveforms
Optimization Of Well Design And Location In A Real Field
Petrophysical Characterization Of Barnett Shale Play
Physical Properties Pf Associative Polymer Solutions
Pore Scale Modeling Of The Impact Of Surrounding Flow Behavior On Multiphase
Flow Properties
Probabilistic Micro Earthquake Location For Reservoir Monitoring
Shale Characterization For Evaluating Shale Drilling Fluid Interaction
Shear Induced Relative Permeability Change In Uncemented Sands
Simulation Study of Emerging Well Control Methods for Influxes caused by
Bottomhole Pressure Fluctuations During Managed Pressure Drilling
Stabilization Of Slugging By Sliding Mode Control
Stochastic Characterization Of Carbonate Buildup Architectures , Using Two And
Multiple Point Statistics , And Statistical Evaluation Of These Methods
Stractural And Stratigraphic Controls On Morrow Sandstone Reservoir
Distribution From 3D Seismic Data , Postle Field , Texas County , Oklahoma
Studying Fluid Leakage Along A Cemented Wellbore The Sustained Casing
Pressure Analogue, The Influence Of Geomechanics And Chemical
The Cointerpretation Of Flow Rate And Pressure Data From Permanent Downhole
Gauges Using Wavelet And Data Mining Approach
The Impact Of Oil Chemistry On Heavy Oil Solution Gas Drive And Fracture
Reconsolidation Of Diatomite During Thermal Operations
The Utility Of Above Zone Pressure Measurements In Monitoring Geologically
Stored Carbon Dioxide
Time Lapse Variations Of Multi Component Electrical Resistivity Measurements
Acquired In High Angle Wells

Uncertainties In Rock Pore Compressibility And Effects On Seismic History

Matching
Uncertainty Assessment Using Stochastic Reduced Basis Method For Flow In
Porous Media
Use Of Nanoparticles For Maintaining Shale Stability
Using Mortars To Upscale Permeability In Heterogeous Porous Media From The
Pore To Continuum Scale
Wireline And While ?Drilling Formation Tester Sampling With Oval , Focused ,
And Conventional Probe Types In The Presence Of Water And Oil Base Mud
Filtrate Invasion In Deviated Wells

M.Sc 2008
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3 Dimensional Geomechanical Modeling Of A Tight Gas Reservoir , Rulison Field ,

Piceance Basin , Colorado
A Baseline For Mechanical Specific Energy And Estimation Of Bit Wear Rate
A Study On The Use Of Proxy Reservoir Models In Field Development
Optimization And Value Of Information Problems
Accurate Numerical Simulation Of Reaction Diffusion Processes For Heavy Oil
Recovery
Chemical Flooding Optimization Using The Experimental Design And Response
Surface Method
Classification Of Hydrocarbon Recovery Factor Based On Reservoir Databases
Co2 Sequestration , Understanding The Plume Dynamics And Estimating Risk
Completion Optimization In The Springer Group Of Caddo County , Oklahoma
Downhole Enthalpy Measurement In Geothermal Wells With Fiber Optics
Effect Of Porosity And Permeability On The Membrane Efficiency Of Shales

Evaluating Data Conditioning Accuracy Of MPS Algorithms And The Impact On

Flow Modeling
Fractured Face Interference Of Finite Conductivity Fractured Wells Using
Numerical Simulation
High Resolution , Microvisual Study Of High Mobility Ratio , Immiscible
Displacements
Impact Of Injection Well Fractured On Well Injectivity And Reservoir Sweep In
Waterflooding And Enhanced Oil Recovery
Improving Genetic Algorithms For Optimum Well Placement
Infinite Acting Physically Representative Networks For Capillarity Controlled
Displacements
Innovations In Rotary Drill Bit Design To Reduce Vibration and Improve Durability
Kinetics Of Gas Hydrate Formation And Dissociation
Leak Detection In Two-Phase Oil And Gas Pipelines By Parameter And State
Estimation
Modeling Of Reservoir Temperature Transients , And Parameter Estimation
Constrained To A Reservoir Temperature Model
Modeling Porosity Dependence On Stress Path In An Unconsolidated Sandstone
Reservoir Using A Discrete Element Model
Modeling The Effects Of Capillary Pressure And The Manipulation Of Viscouse To
Capillary Forces To Recover Residual Saturation Using The Pore N Let Model
Mud Filtrate Invasion Modeling To Quantify Static And Dynamic Petrophysical
Properties Of Fractured And Vuggy Carbonate Formations
Multidisciplinary Hydraulic Fracture Evaluation In The Mesaverde Group Of The
Piceance Basin , Colorado
Numerical Modeling Of The VAPEX Process In Heterogeneous Media
Prediction Of Flowing Frictional Pressure Drop In Deviated Gas Condensate Wells
Through Utilization Of Artificial Neural Networks
Production Trends Of Shale Gas Wells

Quantification Of The Viscoelastic Behavior Of High Molecular Weight Polymers

Used For Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery
Quiescent Gelation Of Waxy Crudes And Restart Of Shut-In Subsea Pipelines
Reservoir Prediction From Multicomponent Seismic Data , Rulison Field ,
Piceance Basin , Colorado
Screening Modeling For Surfactant Polymer Flooding
Sedimentology of Upper Cretaceous Formations from Kurdistan Region NE-Iraq
Sensitivity Analyses Of Drilling Parameters Affecting Hydraulics , Torque And
Drag , Using A Drilling Software
Spectral Decomposition Applied To Time Lapse Seismic Interpretation At Rulson
Field , Garfield County , Colorado
Streamline Assisted History Matching Of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Using
The Probability Perturbation Method
Study Of Mechanical Properties Of Carbonates
Study Of Tapered Internal Diameter Tubing String Well Completion For Enhanced
Production
Surface Dissolution Addressing Technical Challenges Of CO2 Injection And
Storage In Barine Aquifers
The Effects Of Stress Paths And Shear Failure On The Permeability Of
Unconsolidated Sands
The Impact Of Government Requirements And Fiscal Terms On The States
Revenue From A Liquefied Natural Gas Plant
The Validity Of Leak Off Test For In Situ Stress Estimation , The Effect Of The
Bottom Of The Borehole
Tie Line Based Parameterization For Thermal Compositional Reservoir Simulation
Time Lapse Vp Vs Analysis For Reservoir Characterization , Rulison Field ,
Colorado
Towards A Characteristic Equation For Permeability
Unstructured Grid Optimization To Achieve Monotonic Pressure Solutions Using
Multipoint Flux Approximations

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A Laboratory Analysis Of Permeability Of Typical Cement Mixtures Used In The

Permian Basin
A Simulation Study Of Injection CO2 Migration In The Faulted Reservoir
A Workflow To Account For Uncertainty In Well Log Data In 3D Geostatistical
Reservoir Modeling
Advanced Leak Detection In Oil And Gas Pipelines Using A Nonlinear Observer
And OLGA Models
An Experimental Investigation Of In-Situ Combustion In Heterogeneous Media
Application Of Sensitivity Analysis In Petroleum Engineering
Assessment Of Shoulder Bed , Invasion , And Lamination Effects On Borehole
Sonic Logs
Behavior Of Polymer Muds Under High Pressure , High Temperature Conditions
Comparision Of Computation Methods For CBM Production Performance
Construction Of High-Order Adaptive Implicit Methods For Reservoir Simulation
Design Of An Electric X-mas Tree Gate Valve Actuator
Determining Strength Parameters Of Oil Well Cement
Development And Testing Of A Discrete Element Model Of Crushing Sand
Development Of A Fully Implicit , Parallel Equation Of State Compositional
Simulator To Model Asphaltene Precipitation In Petroleum Reservoirs
Development Of High Performance Surfactants For Difficult Oils
Economic Evaluation Of Smart Well Technology
Effect Of Microstructure And Pore Fluid On The Elastic Properties Of Carbonate
Rocks

Effect Of Temperature On Phase Behavior , Pore Morphplogy , And Multiphase

Flow Properties Of Diatomite
Equation Of State , Compositional , One Dimensional Radial Flow Method To
Simulate Invasion And Fluid Withdrawal In The Presence Of Oil Or Water Base
Muds
Estimation Of Dry Rock Elastic Moduli Based On The Simulation Of Mud Filtrate
Invasion Effects On Borehole Acoustic Logs
Experimental Investigation And Modeling Of Naphthenate Soap Deposition
Kinetics In Petroleum Reservoirs
Experimental Investigation Of Enhanced Coal Bed Methane Recovery
Experimental Measurement Of Two Phase Relative Permeabilities In Synthetic
Vertical Fractures
Experimental Study Of Microemulsion Characterization And Optimization In
Enhanced Oil Recovery A Design Approach For Reservoirs With High Salinity
And Hardness
Experimental Study On The Effect Of The Internal Design On The Performance Of
Down hole Gas Separators
Fracture Modeling And Fault Zone Characteristics Applied To Reservoir
Characterization Of The Rulison Gas Field , Garfield County , Colorado
Implementation Of A Two Pseudo Component Approach For Variable Bubble
Point Problems In GPRS
Influence Of Relative Permeability Curves On Extent Of CO2 Plume During
Injection Into Deep Saline Aquifers
Integrated Model Based Control Of Topside Process And Production Wells
Joint Inversion Of Density And Resistivity Logs For The Improved Petrophysical
Assessment Of Thinly Bedded Clastic Rock Formations
LNG As Alternative To Monetize Potential Reserves To Be Discovered At The
Colombian Caribbean Deep Water
Mathematical Model For Darcy Forchheimer Flow With Applications To Well
Performance Analysis

Mathematical Modeling , Analysis And Simulation Of The Productivity Index For

Non-Linear Flow In Porous Media , With Applications In Reservoir Engineering
Microbial Waterflooding Of The Third Earlsboro Unit Seminole County , Oklahoma
Modeling And Simulation Of Anti-Slug Control In Hydro Experimental Multiphase
Flow Loop
Modeling Coupled Fluid Flow And Geomechanical And Geophysical Phenomena
Within A Finite Element Framework
Modeling Of Multiphase Flow In Wells Under Nonisothermal And Noneqilibrium
Conditions
Modeling Simulation And Control Of Unstable Gas Lifted Oil Wells
Modeling Well Performance In Compartmentalized Gas Reservoirs
Numerical Simulation Of PH Sensistive Polymer Injection As A Conformance
Control Method
Numerical Study Of Recovery Mechanisms In Tight Gas Reservoirs
Optimal Reservoir Control Using Nonlinear MPC And ECLIPSE
Optimization Of Well Settings To Maximize Residually Trapped CO2 In Geologic
Carbon Sequestration
Parameter Modeling For A Mechanistic Understanding Of Microbial Plugging
Petrophysical Measurements On Tight Gas Shale
Pipeline Liquid Control Using Nonlinear MPC and OLGA
Probabilistic Framework Based History Matching Algorithm Utilizing Sub Domain
Delineation And Software Pro-HMS
Quantitative Studies Of Relative Dip Angle And Bed Thickness Effects On LWD
Density Images Acquired In High Angle And Horizontal Wells
Seismic Anisotropy In Tight Gas Sandstones , Rulison Field , Piceance Basin ,
Colorado
Selection Of Best Drilling , Completion And Stimulation Methods For Coalbed
Methane Reservoirs
Sensitivity Analysis Of Filtersim And Histogram Reproduction

Shale Membrane Efficiency Experimental Study Using Water Based Muds

Simulating Gas Production From Hydraulic Fracture Networks , A Case Study Of
The Barnett Shale
Simulation Study Evaluating Alternative Initial Responses to Formation Fluid
Influx during Managed Pressure Drilling
Statistically Partitioning Of Well Logs And Core Measurements To Detect And
Quantify Petrophysical Properties
Structural And Straitigraphic Controls On Mesaverde Reservoir Performance ,
Rulison Field , Garfield County , Colorado
Structure of the Chenareh Anticline in Luristan Zagros Role of Gravity in Folding
Style
Thaw Front Dynamics Of Super Insolated Wells In Cold Environments
The Effect Of Neutral Wettability On Trapped Phase Saturation
The Value Of Commodity Price Forecasts In The Presence Of Futures
Thrust Allocation In Semi-Submersible Rig Using Model Predictive Control
Uncertainty Assessment Of Subsurface Flow By A Probability Density Function
Method
Validation , Enhancement Of The Jones Owems Technique For The Prediction Of
Permeability In Low Permeability Gas Sands
Vp.Vs Estimation From Multicomponent Seismic Data For Improved
Characterization Of A Tight Sandstone Gas Reservoir , Rulison Field , Colorado
Water Injectivity Analysis Of Guando Field

M.Sc 2006
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A Geometric Brownian Motion Oil Price Model

Adaptive Control Of Nonlinear Process Using Neural Networks

An Investigation Of Void Fraction And Dispersed Phase Velocity Measurement

Techniques
Coefficient Of Isothermal Oil Compressibility For Reservoir Fluids By Cubic
Equation Of State
Coupled Geological Modeling And History Matching Of Fine Scale Curviline Flow
Barriers And Large Scale Facies Bodies
Creating A Quick Screening Model For CO2 Flooding And Storage In Gulf Coast
Reservoirs Using Dimensionless Groups
Deformation And Acoustic Behavior Of Oil Well Cements
Determining The Fracture Mechanics Properties Of Sedimentary Rocks Using
Double Torsion Testing
Development And Application Of A Drilling Hydraulics Simulator Including
Pressure And Temperature Dependent Fluid Density And Rheology Behavior
Development Of CO2 Sequestration Modeling Capabilities In Stanford General
Purpose Research Simulator
Development Of The B Pressure Derivative
Direct Measurement Of In-Situ Water Saturation In Geothermal Rocks
Direct Spatiotemporal Interpolation Of Reservoir Flow Responses
Discrete Element Model Of Wave Propagation In Steel Cement Region
Dynamic Data Integration For Transport Using Statistical Moment Equations
Electrical Impedance Tomography
Entrance Of Oil Base Muds Into Shale
Error Modeling For Coarse Scale Simulation Using Statistical Techniques
Experimental Evaluation Of High Performance EOR Surfactants For A Dolomite
Oil Reservoir
Experimental Investigation Of Condensate Blockage In High And Low
Permeability Cores
Experimental Study Of The Benefits Of Sodium Carbonate On Surfactants For
Enhanced Oil Recovery

Explicit Deconvolution Of Wellbore Storage Distored Well Test Data

Gas Flow During Well Testing
Gas Permeability Of Coal Beds And Thermochemical Recovery Of Viscous Oil
Improved Geological Modeling And Dynamic Data Integration Using The
Probability Perturbation Approach
Laboratory Investigation Of The Effect Of Solvent Injection On In-Situ
Combustion For Viscous Oils
Mechanistic Understanding Of Microbial Plugging For Improved Sweep Efficiency
Operator Based Multiscale Method For Compressible Flow
Optimization Of Nonconventional Well Placement Using Genetic Algorithms And
Statistical Proxy
P Wave Time Lapse Seismic Data Interpretation At Rulison Field ,Piceance Basin ,
Colorado
Performance Of Gravity Driven And Centrifugal Down Hole Gas Separators For
Continuous And Intermittent Flow
Real Time Calibration Of Drift Flux Flow Models
Shear Wave Time Lapse Seismic Monitoring Of A Tight Gas Sandstone Reservoir
, Rulison Field , Colorado
Simulation Of Chemical Flood Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes Including The
Effects Of Reservoir Wettability
Spontaneous Imbibition And Wettability Characteristics Of Power River Basin
Coal
Stochastic Characterization Of Flow And Transport In Networks
Straining Of Small Particles In Porous Media
Superposition Of Analytical Coning Solutions
Time Lapse Seismic Analysis Of The Tahoe Field , Viosca Knoll Block 783 ,
Offshore Gulf Of Mexico
Utilizing Of Artificial Neural Networks In The Optimization Of History Matching

M.Sc 2005
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3D Stochastic Formulation For Travel Time Moments

A Mixed Finite Element Framework For Modeling Coupled Fluid Flow And
Reservoir Geomechanics
A Software Tool For The Estimation Of Frictional Pressure Losses During Coiled
Tubing Fracturing
A Study Of A PH-Sensitive Polymer For Novel Conformance Control Applications
An Analytical Model For Cyclic Steaming Of Horizontal Wells
An Experimental Study Of Viscous Surfactant Flooding For Enhanced Oil
Recovery
Analysis of Alternative Well Control Methods for Dual Density Deepwater Drilling
Analysis Of Horizontal Gas Well Performance
Analysis Of Time Lapse P Wave Seismic Data From Rulson Field , Colorado
Analyzing Rate Data From Permanent Downhole Gauges
Application Of Covolution And Average Pressure Approximation For Solving Non
Linear Flow Problems , Constant Pressure Inner Boundary Condition For Gas
Flow
Application Of Inverse Modeling To Partitioning Interwell Tracer Tests For
Estimating Oil Saturation
Comparision Of Various Techniques For Computing Well Index
Deconvolution Of Variable Rate Reservoir Performance Data Using B Splines
Determination Of The Mechanisms Of Formation Damage During Alkaline
Waterfloods
Development And Evaluation Of Various Drilling Fluids For Slim Hole Wells

Development Of A Numerical Simulation Model For Two Phase Cross Sectional

Flow Experiments To Test Relative Permeability Relationships
Downhole Gas Separator Performance In Sucker Rod Pumping System
Drag Coefficient Model For Single Particle Settling In Non Newtonian
Pseudoplastic Fluids
Early Reduction Of Reserves In Tight Gas Reservoirs
Flow Behavior Of Gas Condensate Wells
Gas Condensate Well Test Analysis
History Matching Using Probabilistic Approach In A Distributed Computing
Environment
Inversion Of Permeability And Permeability Anisotropy From Straddle Packer
Formation Tester Measurements Using The Physics Of Two Phase Immiscible
Flow And Invasion
Microscopic Investigation Of Fluid Flow Through Porosity Porous Media And InSitu Combustion With Aqueous Metallic Additives
Modeling Gas Condensate Wells With And Without Hydraulic Fractures
Modeling Wettability Alteration In Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Monte Carlo Modeling Of Nuclear Measurements In Vertical And Horizontal Wells
In The Presence Of Mud Filtrate Invasion And Salt Mixing
Optimization Of In Situ Thermal Desorption Process To Remediate Contaminated
Soils Using Numerical Reservoir Simulation
Phase Behavior Study Of Hydrocarbon Water Alcohol Mixtures
Pore Level Investigation Of Dispersivity
Prediction Of Coexistence Vapor Liquid Densities For Substances And Mixtures
Relative Permeability Hysteresis , A New Model And Impact On Reservoir
Simulation
Relative Permeability Of Fractured Rock
Reservoir Characterization Applying Residual Gas Saturation Modeling , Example
From The Starfak T1 Reservoir , Middle Miocene Gulf Of Mexico

Resolving Discrepancies In Predicting Critical Rates In Low Pressure Stripper

Gas Wells
Semi Analytical Estimates Of Permeability Obtained From Capillary Pressure
Sensitivity Analysis Of Modeling Parameters That Affect The Dual Peaking
Behavior In Coalbed Methane Reservoirs
Simulation Of Interwell Gas Tracer Test In Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Simulation Study Of The Effect Of Well Spacing , Effect Of Permeability
Anisotropy , And Effect Of Palmer And Mansoori Model On Coalbed Methane
Production
Stability Criteria For The Thermal Adaptive Implicit Method
The Use Of Multilinear Regression Models In Patterned Waterfloods , Physical
Meaning Of The Regression Coefficients
Theoretical And Experimental Study Of Corrosion Inhibiting Emulsion Placement
In Vertical Wells
Variations In Cement Slurry Characteristics Of Liquid Additives

M.Sc 2004
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A New Analog For Numerical Flow Simulations Application To Direct Assessment

Of Reservoir Flow Performance Uncertainties
A Parametric Study Of Sandstone Acidizing Using A Fine Scale Simulator
A Simulation Study Of Carbon Sequestration In Deep Saline Aquifers
Accurate Streamline Tracing And Coverage Tracing And Coverage
Acoustic Properties Of Shale With Variant Water Activity
An Analysis Of Monte Carlo Simulation As An Estimator Of Original Oil In Place
And Original Gas In Place
Analysis Of PDC Bit Wobbling And Drilling String Buckling

Analysis Of Two Phase Inflow Performance In Horizontal Wells

Asphaltic Shale Coating Agents
Assessment Of Permeability From Well Logs Based On Calibration And
Simulation Of Mud Filtrate Invasion
Characterization of gas-lift instabilities
Compressibility Factor For Natural And Sour Reservoir Gases By Correlations
And Cubic Equations Of State
Core Scale Experimental Study Of Capillary Dominated Flow In Fractured Porous
Media Using CT Imaging
Effect Of Pressure Dependent Permeability On Tight Gas Wells
Effects Of Pressure Gradients On Displacement Performance For Miscible , Near
Miscible Gas Floods
Evaluation Of Equivalent Circulating Density Of Drilling Fluids Under High
Pressure-High Temperature Conditions
Evaluation Of Multistage Triaxial Testing On Berea Sandstone
Experimental Investigation Of The Combined Effect Of IFT Variation And
Wettability On Three Phase Relative Permeabilities
Fracture Pressure Analysis Of Diagnostic Pump In Tests Of Red Frok Sands In
Western Oklahoma
Gas Condensate Damage In Hydraulically Fractured Wells
Gas Injection As An Alternative Option For Handling Associated Gas Produced
From Deepwater Oil Developments In The Gulf Of Mexico
Hierarchical Simulation Of Multiple Facies Reservoirs Using Multiple Point
Geostatistics
Improved Fluid Characterization For Miscible Gas Floods
In Situ Reductive Dehalogenation Of TCE , Laboratory Evaluation Of Ti III Citrate
And Tetrasulfonated Co III Phthalocyanine
Integration NMR With Other Petrophysical Parameters To Characterize A
Turbidite Reservoir

Interpretation Of Borehole Measurements Acquired In Laminated Clastic

Sequences Subject To Mud Filtrate Invasion
Laboratory Evaluation Of High Temperature Conformance Polymer Systems
Measurement Of Nonequilibrium Effects During Spontaneous Imbibition
Modeling Of Tubing Pickling In Conjunction With Matrix Acidizing Treatments
Modeling The Impact Of Subseismic Scale Fractures On Macroscale Block
Properties And Flow Performance
New Modeling Techniques For Two Piece Plunger Lift Components
Numerical Determination Of Relative Permeability From Unsteady State Fluid
Displacements In Cores
Numerical Simulation Of Dual Packer Formation Tester Measurements In The
Presence Naturally Fractured Formations
Numerical Simulations Of Fluid Flow Through High Porosity Porous Media
Obtaining Archies Exponent Ranges Through The Use Of J Function Plots
Optimization Of Well Placement Under Time Dependent Uncertainty
Optimizing Gridding Parameters In Parallel Multiscale Reservoir Characterization
Approach
Parameter Determination For Simplified Models Of Two And Three-Phase Flow In
Wells
Permanent Downhole Sensors In Today Petroleum Industry
Real Time Optimization Of Smart Wells
Rheological Study Of Hydroxypropyl Guar , HPG , Slurries
Sand Control And Management Development Of A Sand Control Strategy
Simulating Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) By High Pressure Air Injection (HPAI) In
West Texas Light Oil Reservoir
Simulation Analysis Of The Impact Of Vertical Reservoir Heterogeneity On
Chemical Tertiary Recovery

Simulation Study Of Miscible Gas Injection For Gas Enriched Above The
Minimum Miscibility Enrichment
Stress Dependent Permeability On Tight Gas Reservoirs
The Effect Of Metallic Salt Additives On In-Situ Combustion Performance
The Effects Of Geometry On The Efficiency Of Downhole Gas Separators
Time Lapse P Wave Seismic Monitoring Of The CO2 Flood At Weyburn Field ,
Saskatchewan
Tracer Flow Modeling And Efficient Solvers For GPRS
Upscaling Errors In Reservoir Simulation

M.Sc 2003
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A Case Study Integrating The Physics Of Mud Filtrate Invasion With The Physics
Of Resistivity Logging
A Quadratic Cumulative Production Model For The Material Balance Of An
Abnormally Pressured Gas Reservoir
An Experimental Investigation Of The Vapor Extraction Process
An Experimental Study of the Applicability of Flooding Phenomena to the
Dynamic Lubrication Method of Well Control
Characterization Of Gas Condensate Reservoirs Using Pressure Transient And
Production Data Santa Barbara Field , Monagas , Venezuela
Compositional Streamline Simulation , An Application To Gas Injection For
Enhanced Condensate Recovery
Detecting Fluid Included Lithofacies From AVO Data Using Rock Physics And
Minimum Message Length Clustering
Determining Petrophysical Properties Of Facies Using A Hierachical History
Matching Method

Development Of An Efficient Fully Coupled Geomechanics And Fluid Flow

Simulator
Direct Estimation Of Gas Reserves Using Production Data
Establishing Pattern Correlation Between Time Lapse Seismic And Saturation
Estimating Time Dependent Reservoir Properties By Analyzing Long Term
Pressure Data
Estimating Water Saturation At The Geysers Based On Historical Pressure And
Temperature Production Data
Gas Condensate Damage In Hydraulically Fractured Wells
Green Well Testing
History Matching By Joint Perturbation Of Facies Distribution And Net To Gross
Integrated Time Lapse Seismic Analysis Of The G Sand Facies , Popeye Field ,
Offshore Gulf Of Mexico
Liquid Additives Control Cement Slurry Properties
Membrane Efficiency Behavior Of Shales
Modeling Of Performance Behavior In Gas Condensate Reservoirs Using A
Variable Mobility Concept
New Inflow Performance Relationships For Gas Condensate Reservoirs
New Transfer Functions For Simulation Of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs With
Dual Porosity Models
New Well Optimization In Mature Fields
Optimization Of Recovery From Two Layer Reservoirs With Crossflow
Optimization Techniques For History Matching Using Streamline Based
Geostatistical Constraints
Optimum Selection Of Underbalanced Techniques
Phase Behavior Of Carbon Dioxide Sequestration In Depleted Gas Reservoirs
Removal of Sustained Casing Pressure Utilizing a Workover Rig

Reservoir Pressure And Sea Floor Venting , Predicting Trap Integrity In Gulf Of
Mexico Deepwater Turbidite Minibasin
Simulation Of Bilinear Flow In Single Matrix Block Drainage
The Effect Of Cementation On The Mechanical Properties For Jauf Reservoir At
Saudi Arabia
The Imbibition Process Of Waterflooding In Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Time Lapse Impedance Inversion At Popeye Field , Offshore Gulf Of Mexico
Uncertainty In NG Ratio In Early Reservoir Development
Wavelet Analysis For The Generation Of Multiple History Matched Reservoir
Models
Well Placement Optimization Using The Quality Map Approach
Well Testing In Gas Condensate Reservoirs

M.Sc 2002
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A Method For Static Based Reservoir Model Up Gridding

A New Approach For Training And Testing Artificial Neural Networks For
Permeability Prediction
A Petrophysics And Reservoir Performance Based Reservoir Characterization Of
Womack Hill , Upper Smackover ,Field , Alabama
A Study Of The Effect Of Oil Viscosity On Gas Bubble Coalescence In Viscous
Oils
An Enhanced Framework For Modeling Complex Well Configurations
Application Of Experimental Design And Response Surface Analysis To Gas Cap
Blowdown
Binary Interaction Parameters For Critical Local Of Polar And Non polar Systems

Channel Recognition Using Feature-Based Geostatistics A Submarine Channel

Case Study
Decline Curve Analysis Using Type Curves Hydraulically Fractured Wells
Drift Flux Models For Multiphase Flow In Wells
Effects Of Cyclic Pressure Variation Of Permeability
Effects Of Relative Permeability On Parameter Estimation
Geopressure And Flow Focusing On The Slope Of The Gulf Of Mexico ,GC 65
Integration Of Rock Physics And Reservoir Simulation For The Interpretation Of
Time-Lapce Seismic Data At Weyburn Field , Saskatchewan
Limitations Of Streamline Simulation , A Crossflow Investigation
Microscopic And Macroscopic Visualization Of Displacement Of Oil From Porous
Media
Modeling Techniques For Simulating Well Behavior
Monte Carlo Simulations Of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Measurements In
Carbonate Rocks Under A Constant Magnetic Field Gradient
Multiple Point Simulation Of Multiple Reservoir Facies
New Correlations For Dew Point , Specific Gravity And Producing Yield For Gas
Condensates
Ocean Sequestration Of CO2 N2 Mixtures
Performance Of A Well With Lateral And Vertical Wellbores
Petrophysical Analysis And Geologic Model For The Bullwinkle J Sands With
Implications For Time-Lapse Reservoir Monitoring , Green Canyon Block 65 ,
Offshore Louisiana
Pressure Depletion Experiments In Highly Viscous Oil Systems
Relative Permeability Of Fractured Rock
Semianalytical Modeling Of Nonconventional Well Performance In Realistic
Reservoirs
Soak Alternating Anew Approach To Carbon Dioxide Flooding

Steam Injection Into Low Permeability Fractured Reservoirs That Contain Light
Oils
The Data As The Model , Interpreting Permanent Downhole Gauge Data Without
Knowing The Reservoir Model
The Frisco City Sandstone , North Frisco City , Paramount , Field , Monroe County
, Alabama , A Case Study Of Net Pay And Permeability Anisotropy Evaluation
Related To Geology

M.Sc 2001
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A New P Z Technique For The Analysis Of Abnormally Pressured Gas Reservoirs

An Investigation Of The Explicit Correction Scheme For Local Grid Refinement
Approximate Modeling Of Fractured Horizontal Wells
Assessment Of The Annular Space In A Horizontal Directional Drilling Installation
Automatic Geobodies Detection From Seismic Using Minimum Message Length
Clustering
Constant Pressure Measurement Of Steam Water Relative Permeability
Diffusion Through Carbon Dioxide Hydrate Film
Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of API Modified Goodman Diagram In Sucker
Rod Fatigue Analysis
Experimental Study Of CO2 Foam Flow In Porous Media And Application Of
Fractional Flow Method To Foam Flow
Flow Based Grids For Reservoir Simulation
Gas Condensate Well Test Analysis
GsTL ,The Geostatistical Template Library In C++
Identification And Characterization Of Hydraulic Flow Units In The San Jaun
Formation , Orocual Field , Venezuela

Imaging Drainage Of Turbidite Reservoirs Though Time Lapse Seismic Analysis

At Bullwinkle , Green Canyon Block 65 , Offshore Gulf Of Mexico
Investigation Of An Advanced Technique To Select An Optimal Inhibition And
Removal Method Of Paraffin Deposition In Oil Wells
Modeling Gas Liquid Flow In Pipes , Flow Pattern Transitions And Drift Flux
Modeling
Modifications To The Streamline Pseudo Function Algorithm For 2D To 1D And
2D To 2D Scale Up
New Correlation For Hydrocarbon Gas Viscosity And Gas Density
Permanent Downhole Gauge Data Interpretation
Plunger Leakage And Viscous Drag For Beam Pump Systems
Prediction Of Critical Properties For Mixtures Of Carbon Dioxide And Reservoir
Fluids
Production Optimization Via Lagrange Multipliers
Relative Permeability Through Fractures
Semi Analytical Solutions For Multilayer Reservoirs
The Analysis And Interpretation Of Water Oil Ratio Performance In Petroleum
Reservoirs
Visualization Of Four Phase Flow Using Micromodels