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Susan M. Agar
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Constitutive Relations for Reactive Transport Modeling
Effects of Chemical Reactions on Multi-phase Flow Properties
The relationship between flow properties and chemical reactions is the key to modeling subsurface reactive transport. This study develops closed-form equations to describe the effects of mineral precipitation and dissolution on multi-phase flow properties (capillary pressure and
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Three-dimensional printing for geoscience
Fundamental research, education, and applications for the petroleum industry
Three-dimensional (3-D) printing provides a fast, cost-effective way to produce and replicate complicated designs with minimal flaws and little material waste. Early use of 3-D printing for engineering applications in the petroleum industry has stimulated further adoption by g ...
Micropore network modelling from 2D confocal imagery
Impact on reservoir quality and hydrocarbon recovery
Microporosity in carbonate reservoirs is globally pervasive and commonly used to explain high-porosity, low-permeability reservoirs, higher than expected water saturations, low resistivity pay zones and poor sweep efficiency. The potential for micropores to store and produce hydr
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The impact of hierarchical fracture networks on flow partitioning in carbonate reservoirs
Examples based on a Jurassic carbonate ramp analog from the High Atlas, Morocco
Hydrocarbon reservoirs commonly contain an array of fine-scale structures that are below the resolution of seismic images. These features may impact flow behavior and recovery, but their specific impacts may be obscured by the upscaling process for sector and field-scale reservoi
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Fundamental controls on fluid flow in carbonates
Current workflows to emerging technologies
The introduction reviews topics relevant to the fundamental controls on fluid flow in carbonate reservoirs and to the prediction of reservoir performance. The review provides research and industry contexts for papers in this volume only. A discussion of global context and framewo
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Carbonate reservoirs contain a significant portion of the world's proven hydrocarbon reserves but are challenging to produce due to their complex lithologies, structural heterogeneities, and neutral to oil-wet nature. Increasing recovery requires a better understanding of how dif
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A high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) outcrop model of a Jurassic carbonate ramp was used in order to perform a series of detailed and systematic flow simulations. The aim of this study was to test the impact of small- and large-scale geological features on reservoir performan
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A joint AAPG-Society of Petroleum Engineers-Society of Exploration Geophysicists Hedberg Research Conference was held in Saint-Cyr sur Mer, France, on July 8 to 13, 2012, to review current research and explore future research directions related to improved production from carbona
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