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Sonatrach
Company•Algiers, Algeria•
About: Sonatrach is a company organization based out in Algiers, Algeria. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Hydraulic fracturing & Structural basin. The organization has 460 authors who have published 494 publications receiving 6339 citations. The organization is also known as: Sonatrach SPA.
Topics: Hydraulic fracturing, Structural basin, Reservoir modeling, Drilling fluid, Multilayer perceptron
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TL;DR: In this paper, a tentative classification of calcrete gravels is proposed on the basis of the Los Angeles abrasion test results, which is intended to strengthen the universal character of the USCS.
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TL;DR: In this article, a new separation and compression unit in an area where all the associated gas production is being flared despite the new environmental laws was performed on the Hysis simulator and the intermediate separation pressure values can be determined by empirical correlations such as the method of equal pressure ratio.
Abstract: Since the birth of the oil industry, flaring has been used upstream to depressurize eruptive wells and downstream to burn excess gases in refining and petrochemical plants and also in associated and natural gas treatment plants. Unfortunately, flaring produces a great number of harmful by-products such as dangerous particles, volatile organic compounds, polycyclic aromatic and many other compounds just as harmful. The separation of gas and oil phases remains the most important stage in the so-called surface production. Given the high gas oil ratio (GOR) of Algerian crude oil, the separation of this gas is carried out in three or four stages. However, the choice of the optimal number of stages of separation and intermediate values of pressure requires a rigorous computation wherein the use of a simulator is more than necessary to make possible the optimization of the separation process. The present work was performed on a new separation and compression unit in an area where all the associated gas production is being flared despite the new environmental laws. Our approach consists of first simulating the separation process with the most appropriate thermo dynamical model. The intermediate separation pressure values can be determined by empirical correlations such as the method of equal pressure ratio. In our computations we have opted for a graphical method, specifically the method of minimum compression energy, that requires rigorous calculations entailing therefore the use of the Hysis simulator. This treated gas may be valorized as a raw material for the petrochemical industry or compressed and re-injected into the reservoir in order to maintain the rate of oil production. It remains that one important way of valorizing this associated gas is to transform it into liquid through a process known as gas to liquid (GTL) technology.
30 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, two machine learning tools, namely gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT) and adaptive boosting support vector regression (AdaBoost SVR), were used to determine the interfacial tension (IFT) in crude oil/brine system.
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01 Jan 200028 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the wax disappearance temperature (WDT) was measured in the presence of wax in the flow assurance during production processes of hydrocarbon fluids and it was shown that the deposition of wax is one of the most potential problems that disturbs flow assurance.
Abstract: The deposition of wax is one of the most potential problems that disturbs the flow assurance during production processes of hydrocarbon fluids. In this study, wax disappearance temperature (WDT) th...
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Philip Ringrose | 36 | 123 | 4182 |
Rabah Bracene | 20 | 33 | 1637 |
Fateh Belaid | 17 | 53 | 877 |
Mohamed Khodja | 15 | 48 | 856 |
Menad Nait Amar | 13 | 48 | 400 |
Rafik Hamza | 10 | 15 | 578 |
Mohamed Arab | 9 | 54 | 289 |
O. Bouledroua | 8 | 24 | 157 |
Said Gaci | 7 | 34 | 225 |
Seif-Eddine Ouyahia | 7 | 17 | 111 |
Ahmed El Hachemi Mazighi | 6 | 8 | 77 |
Mohamed Lamine Gana | 6 | 14 | 236 |
Réda Samy Zazoun | 6 | 9 | 149 |
Abdallah Harouaka | 6 | 15 | 152 |
Hamza Boukhlouf | 6 | 10 | 192 |