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Showing papers in "Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering in 2017"


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TL;DR: A review of the state of the art in multiphase fluid mechanics modeling of hydraulic fracturing, highlighting gaps in the body of knowledge and clarifying the questions that are still open.

195 citations


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Peng Li1, Min Zheng1, He Bi1, Songtao Wu1, Xiaorui Wang2 
TL;DR: In order to determine the micro-structure of pore throat, the high pressure mercury intrusion experiments (HPMI) were performed on the tight oil sandstone samples of Chang 7 member in Xin’anbian Block, Ordos Basin, China as mentioned in this paper.

193 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a few ideas have been proposed and studied in laboratory (experimental and theoretical or modeling studies) to enhance the oil recovery in these reservoirs, such as gas injection, water injection, and surfactant injection, especially in huff-n-puff mode.

180 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed an evaluation method of brittleness index based on energy method, established the evaluation model based on three types of damage constitutive relations, and finally analyzed the effects of the damage variable of peak strain of different types of different rocks on brittiness.

169 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the adsorption of SDS on kaolinite was investigated as a function of surfactant concentration and added electrolyte (NaCl, CaCl2 and AlCl3) concentration.

133 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a thorough investigation on surfactant adsorption on rock under the influence of silica nanoparticles (SNP) was made, and the results showed that SNP can reduce the amount of surfactants used by SDS.

131 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a state-of-the-art review of fundamental studies on lost circulation and wellbore strengthening, focusing mainly on experimental and theoretical studies, rather than field experiences.

120 citations


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TL;DR: The authors have formulated a method to calculate the uncertainty (confidence interval) of ROP predictions, which can be useful in engineering based drilling decisions and provide a better fit than traditional models.

115 citations


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TL;DR: A review of the recent applications of nanotechnology in Colombia, from laboratory approaches to field conditions, is presented in this paper, where three cases of field trials employing nanofluids are discussed for inhibiting the formation damage of asphaltene in tight-condensate reservoirs and light oil crude, and fine migration in tightcondense reservoirs and mobility improvement of heavy and extra-heavy oils.

113 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the mesopore-dominated pore network was investigated in high-rank coal formed from regional metamorphism collected from the southern Qinshui basin.

111 citations


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TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the effect of natural existing fractures on fluid-driven hydraulic fracture by analyzing the variation of fracture radius, cumulative crack number, and growth rate of porosity versus injection time.

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TL;DR: In this article, the influence of silicon dioxide (SiO2) and aluminum oxide (Al2O3) nanoparticles on SDS adsorption on kaolinite and SDS-foam stability at static and dynamic conditions was investigated.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of SiO2 nanoparticles on improving the rheological behavior and inhibition of the thermal degradation of hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM) solutions were investigated.

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TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental and modeling work was performed to gain further insights into the geochemical interactions between carbonate rocks and modified brines, where single-phase static (equilibrium) and transport experiments were performed with various brines in limestone cores at 120°C.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the current state of digital rock technology, with emphasis on industrial applications, and show how imaging and image analysis can be applied for rock typing and modeling of end-point saturations.

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TL;DR: In this article, combustion characterization and kinetics of four different origin crude oil samples were determined using thermogravimetry - differential thermal analysis (TGA-DTA) and TGA-FTIR.

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TL;DR: In this article, a transverse relaxation (T2) analysis of low-field NMR was performed on samples from the Perth Basin, Western Australia, and the results indicated that most of the transverse relaxations occur below 3 milliseconds in saturated samples and that a conventional centrifuge cannot remove water from the smaller pores, making the commonly accepted clay bound water cutoff unsuitable for shales.

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TL;DR: In this article, different surfactants and their mixtures were tested to evaluate their performance as CO2 foam agents, and the experiments were conducted using a visualized foam meter and a core flooding facility at high pressure and high temperature conditions.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of different factors influencing the deposition of asphaltenes is presented, which sheds light on the strategy to control and minimize asphalte deposits by inhibitors or dispersants to avoid any harmful consequence.

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TL;DR: Nanotechnology is the design and application of engineered or naturally occurring nanoparticles with at least one dimension of the order of 1-100nm to accomplish specific purposes as discussed by the authors, where nanoparticles can be engineered to contain specific optical, magnetic, interfacial, electrical or chemical properties to perform specific functions.

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TL;DR: In this article, a numerical model of hydraulic-controlled blasting was established, and the spacing distance of the blasting holes and the effective radius of the spraying were numerically simulated using ANSYS/LS-DYNA software.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated hole cleaning efficiency of an oil-based drilling fluid (OBM) and a water-based fluid (WBM) whose viscosity profiles are similar as per API specifications.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the mechanism of CEWAG injection for enhanced oil recovery and the advantages of the method over other conventional methods, including role of different chemicals and gases, modes and patterns of the injection, mobility control and capillary mechanisms along with different laboratory studies and field implications have been discussed.

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TL;DR: In this paper, molecular dynamics simulations were performed and reported on systems consisting of a single asphaltene molecule and pure solvents, and three types of asphtenes with different architectures, molecular weights, and heteroatoms content were investigated.

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TL;DR: In this article, stable nanofluids of an oilfield polymer (polyacrylamide, PAM) with and without surfactant (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS) have been formulated and examined for IFT reduction of paraffin oils such as n-decane, n-hexane,n-pentane, and n-heptane.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a single phase coreflood experiments were performed, where low and high salinity polymer (HSP) solutions, i.e., conventional polymer flood using formation brine, were injected in reservoir core plugs, and performance of the two polymer solutions were analyzed for polymer retention, injectivity and polymer acceleration.

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TL;DR: In this article, a water-based and an oil-based drilling fluid have been investigated regarding their viscoelastic properties, using the Anton Paar rheometers MCR 102 and MCR 302.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of the size of the void angles, temperature change, magnitude of the inner pressure and in-situ stress on the casing deformation in the Changning-Weiyuan shale gas play (Sichuan Basin of China).

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TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of Zirconium (IV) oxide (ZrO2) and nickel (II) oxide(NiO) nanoparticles on the wetting preference of fractured (oil-wet) limestone formations was investigated.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of salt concentration and type of ions present in an aqueous phase on the interfacial tension between pure hydrocarbon liquids and water was determined using Wilhelmy plate method by dynamic contact angle tensiometer.