[1] The responses of karstic aquifers to storms are often used to obtain information about aquifer geometry. In general, spring hydrographs are a function of both system geometry and recharge. However, the majority of prior work on storm pulses through karst has not studied the effect of recharge on spring hydrographs. To examine the relative importance of geometry and recharge, we break karsti...

Steam-water capillary pressure is of central importance in geothermal reservoir engineering, however it is still poorly known due to the difficulty making direct measurements. To this end, we have conducted experimental and theoretical studies over the past five years and have made significant progress in understanding fundamental steamwater flow. In this paper, we summarize and discuss the res...

Only limited information is usually available about the properties (e.g., permeability) of oil reservoirs, which are usually heterogeneous with high variability levels and complex spatial correlation structures. Incomplete knowledge about these heterogeneous natural systems leads to uncertainty in the reservoir description model (i.e., permeability distribution). The uncertainty in the reservoi...

Well testing is a crucial stage in the decision of setting up new wells on oil field. Decision makers rely on the metrics to evaluate the candidate wells’ potential. One important metric is permeability, measuring the ability of porous material to transmit fluids. High permeability often leads to high yielding. In a conventional well test, the well is controlled to produce at a constant flow ra...

A reservoir rock is a porous geological formation in contact with two liquids : brine and oil. An improved knowledge of rock wettability is of primary importance to estimate the amount of crude oil in underground resources. The petroleum industries have observed that wettability contrasts in sedimentary reservoir rocks are largely correlated to the presence of clays (illite andlor kaolinite) in...

Nano-scale zero valent iron (nZVI) has received significant attention because of its potential to rapidly reduce a number of priority source zone contaminants. In order to effectively deliver nZVI to the source zone the nZVI particles must be stable. Previous laboratory studies have demonstrated the mobility of polymer modified suspensions of low concentration nZVI. More recently studies have s...

We investigate the acoustic and mechanical properties of a reservoir sandstone saturated by two immiscible hydrocarbon fluids, under different saturations and pressure conditions. The modeling of static and dynamic deformation processes in porous rocks saturated by immiscible fluids depends on many parameters such as, for instance, porosity, permeability, pore fluid, fluid saturation, fluid pre...

FOllin is an excellent fluid for achieving mobility control of gas in porous media. Practical application of fOllins for EOR processes, however requires a predictive model of foam displacement. Further, quantitative information on fOllin-flow behavior at reservoir flow rates llild pressures is required as input to llily field-scale modeling. An experimental and mechanistic-modeling study is rep...

Spatial fluctuations for in situ flow structures tend to be spatially highly erratic and to scale with physical dimension. Such reservoir flow spatial fluctuation properties are reflected in the lognormal distributions of well productivities in some oil/gas and geothermal fields. Ability to efficiently recognize and manage large-scale spatially erratic flow structures when they are present is t...

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