Models of two phase flows in porous media, used in petroleum engineering, lead to a system of two coupled equations with elliptic and parabolic degenerate terms, and two unknowns, the saturation and the pressure. For the purpose of their approximation, a coupled scheme, consisting in a finite volume method together with a phase-by-phase upstream weighting scheme, is used in the industrial setti...

Farnoush Faridbod,1 Mohammad Reza Ganjali,2,* Parviz Norouzi,2 Siavash Riahi,3,2 and Hamid Rashedi4 1Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2Center of Excellence in electrochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Tehran, 3Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, 4Department of Chemical Engineering, Facu...

a Department of Mechanical Engineering & Multidisciplinary Program in Materials Science and Engineering, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY 13902, United States b Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States c Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, Un...

The natural complexities of petroleum reservoir systems continue to provide a challenge to geoscientists. In petroleum geology, exploration and production wells are often analysed using image logs and the use of all the available borehole data to completely characterize the reservoir potentials and performance is an important task. The development of reliable interpretation methods is of prime ...

IDENTIFICATION, DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF OXYGENATED HYDROCARBON-BASED CO2-SOLUBLE POLYMERS FOR CHEMICAL AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS

History matching is the process of updating a petroleum reservoir model using production data. It is a required step before a reservoir model is accepted for forecasting production. The process is normally carried out by flow simulation, which is very time-consuming. As a result, only a small number of simulation runs are conducted and the history matching results are normally unsatisfactory. I...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide a good framework for solving classical problems in the earth sciences and engineering. This thesis describes the geostatistics associated with creating a geological model of the Abacherli reservoir within the Mahala oil field of the Los Angeles Basin of Southern California using a variogram-based two-point geostatistical approach. The geology of this...